Performance

Chris Coyier stops to think about…

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Dan Knauss

Chris Coyier stops to think about the power usage of websites and whether good performance maps to lower energy usage. 🔋 Chris links to a number of good articles and experiments on this subject. At the end of the day…

Mark Krynsky shares his experience of…

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Dan Knauss

Mark Krynsky shares his experience of trying to replace the OceanWP theme and Elementor on a with Astra Pro and the block editor on an existing site. Mark looks at the cost factor, simplicity vs. complexity, and performance considerations. Mark…

Matt Zeunert from DebugBear attempts to…

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Matt Zeunert from DebugBear attempts to answer the question, "Is the web is getting slower?" Starting by interpreting the HTTP Archive data, Matt looks at how devices and the web have changed over the past 10 years and what those…

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 "Eckstine" was released this week, and so far it has been getting good reviews and feedback. The top three areas of focus were speed, search — with a new sitemap addition to core — and…

Iain Poulson recently launched Plugin Rank,…

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Dan Knauss

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.

If you work in CSS you…

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Dan Knauss

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…

KPIs for WordPress Agencies with Virtual…

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Dan Knauss

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 new study from North Carolina…

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Brian Krogsgard

A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft discovered that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions actually test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent…

ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, recently added a separate performance analysis report for WooCommerce Hosting. Hosts specializing in WooCommerce — like GreenGeeks, Nestify, Pressable, Seravo, Servebolt, SiteGround, and Wetopi — are among those who participated in…

Joshua Strebel explains PHP workers and…

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Joshua Strebel explains PHP workers and what they mean for WordPress hosting. He also shares some test results and what to take away from them. For example, "You want to tune the number of PHP workers to consistently use 80-100%…

🤔 Tom Fanelli shares what he thinks…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
🤔 Tom Fanelli shares what he thinks are the most significant challenges facing WordPress: Unreliable hosting that doesn't scale efficiently. A disconnect between hosting capacity and actual demand at the level of people visiting a site. Tom predicts "Hosting companies that…

Wordfence has launched Fast or Slow,…

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Dan Knauss

Wordfence has launched Fast or Slow, which was born from the idea "to develop a way to measure real-world performance from around the world, and an easy way to read and interpret the results." 💨 This free online service provides…

Riad Benguella presents some performance improvement…

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Brian Krogsgard

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. 💨

Video and podcast picks

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…

Karolina Szczur explains how to get…

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Dan Knauss

Karolina Szczur explains how to get started with web performance by breaking down the most important performance metrics. 🚄 JavaScript is one of the main obstacles, according to Karolina: "Avoiding long-running tasks and blocking the JavaScript main thread is one…
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