WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more →
What is WP Cloud?
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using a page builder. WordPress comes in at the bottom of the pack, however, when it…
Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12
Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.
Now that SEO is taking performance…
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…
If you’ve done any testing or…
If you’ve done any testing or optimization with your site with Google in mind you’ve likely heard of Lighthouse — a popular open-source tool for auditing performance. Karolina Szczur describes what has changed between Lighthouse 7 and 8 — and what you might notice in your site speed tracking that’s new. 💨
Jamie Indigo has written a technical…
Jamie Indigo has written a technical SEO guide to Lighthouse performance metrics. Jamie offers some instructions for testing your performance and understanding the metrics behind Lighthouse’s Performance score.
Executive Code When President Joe Biden…
Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it’s still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and plugins the revamped whitehouse.gov site is running, among other technical details. One of the first…
Google has provided a target date…
Google has provided a target date in May 2021 for when “Core Web Vitals” will be an official ranking factor in Google search results. 🎯 They recommend doing a sitewide audit of your pages. Identify where there is room for improvement, and then use tools like Page Speed Insights and Lighthouse to help fix improve…
WordCamp US will be happening next…
WordCamp US will be happening next week — officially December 7th, 8th, and 9th — for the second year in Nashville. If you are not attending, free livestream tickets are available. There’s a certain feeling in the air that this year’s WCUS might be one of the more memorable and perhaps historic gatherings of the WordPress…
Susty WP is an experiment by…
Susty WP is an experiment by Jack Lenox to see how small a WordPress theme can get. Jack got the homepage of his website to about 7KB of data transfer earned — not at all surprisingly — top scores in Google Lighthouse and webpagetest.org). Jack’s recent post on CSS Tricks explains what he did and the…
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