Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did…
Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did some new benchmarks on HHVM and PHP7, and says that HHVM still comes out on top. The results surprised me a bit, but PHP7 is nonetheless an amazing performance improvement.
Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did some new benchmarks on HHVM and PHP7, and says that HHVM still comes out on top. The results surprised me a bit, but PHP7 is nonetheless an amazing performance improvement.
If you work in CSS you may have heard of the CSS content-visibility property, which offers rendering performance benefits by skipping off-screen content. This article from Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin shows you how to leverage this new CSS property for faster initial load times, using the auto keyword. 💨
Automattic has released a pretty fancy PHP class called Prefork, that enables pre-loading capability to large PHP apps, such as WordPress. This makes it so that WordPress doesn’t have to completely reload itself every time you load the page. It’s got some pretty meaty requirements and the setup process isn’t for a beginner, but this…
KPIs for WordPress Agencies with Virtual CFO Jeff Meziere 🔑 Join BusinessValueAcademy.com co-founders Jeff Meziere and Cory Miller as they walk through the Key Performance Indicators for professional service companies, particularly agencies. Jeff Meziere is a CPA, as well as a Virtual CFO. Sign up and bring your questions! There will be a live Q&A…
Matthias Pfefferle is head of WordPress development at a hosting company in Europe and the creator of Activity Pub, a WordPress plugin. He joins Cory Miller to discuss the rising need for decentralization in social networking, the current movement, and the future potential available within WordPress.
Brian Jackson shared some data from the analysis of 13 billion log entries from thousands of WordPress sites hosted on Kinsta servers. There are a lot of valuable and fascinating takeaways summarized at the end. One surprise: “Windows 98 is still kicking strong somewhere.” 🏚️
WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.