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Riad Benguella presents some performance improvement and monitoring techniques that can be used in any React/Redux application, based on his work and observations with Gutenberg. 💨
Now that SEO is taking performance optimization much more seriously thanks to Google‘s Core Web Vitals, some people think a web page’s Lighthouse performance scores correlate with their Core Web Vitals score. But is this really true? Rick Viscomi dives deeper into that question. Rick concludes it’s better to use tools like Google Search Console‘s…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. Are you interested in giving back and contributing…
Iain Poulson recently launched Plugin Rank, an SEO tool for developers who want to monitor their rankings and performance relative to competitors. 👀 A similar freemium plugin exists in the WordPress repo from Rank Math.
Cloudflare has introduced a new ‘privacy-focused’ DNS service called 1.1.1.1 that is also supposed to speed up web browsing. Check out this post that compares the performance of DNS Resolvers, including CloudFlare, Google, Quad9, and OpenDNS. CloudFlare came in first at 72% of all the locations tested, with an average of 4.98 ms worldwide.
The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress. Current topics covered: Elastic architecture Page caching Object caching Query performance Search Real-world architecture Development…
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren’t just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about Pantheon for the first time last year, when it was a Drupal-only platform. When Pantheon…
