An interview with Review Signal founder Kevin Ohashi
Dan Knauss
Kevin Ohashi is the founder of Review Signal. Kevin also produces an annual report on WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks.
Colin Newcomer built near-identical landing pages…
Brian Krogsgard
Colin Newcomer built near-identical landing pages with five popular WordPress page builders and then ran them through a series of performance tests.
If you’re using Webpack then this “field…
Brian Krogsgard
If you're using Webpack then this "field guide" for better build performance by Rowan Oulton (an engineer at Slack) will be right up your alley. There's a lot of information in it. According to Rowan, they got their median build time…
Taking a new product from concept to launch
Brian Krogsgard
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…
Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine…
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine feature called "Flexible Workflows." As the name suggests, Flexible Workflows allows teams to design their own development and deployment workflows. Some teams might want only a staging and production environment. Others might want a…
Many developers would like to replace…
Dan Knauss
Many developers would like to replace WordPress search completely. Josh Nederveld offers some ideas for improving its performance and scalability. While replacing it does make sense in certain cases, there are times where tweaks might be the wiser course. As Josh puts it, "WordPress search…
Josh Habdas shares some tips on…
Brian Krogsgard
Josh Habdas shares some tips on how to set up "a $5 Vultr box and Redis with Load Impact to support up to 7000 concurrent WordPress users. " This procedure uses a performance optimization technique called Fetch Injection that enables external…
Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth…
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth piece on what you need to know about caching if you are using WordPress. Scott covers why network requests are slow, the importance of batching HTTP requests, and a nice lengthy bit on how…
Brad Touesnard writes about the release…
Brian Krogsgard
Brad Touesnard writes about the release of the new WP Image Processing Queue plugin, that was born during WordCamp US Contributor Day this past December. Brad hopes something like this is rolled into WordPress core, and is encouraging developers to…
Ashley Rich, creator of WP Scanner…
Dan Knauss
Ashley Rich, creator of WP Scanner and full-time developer for Delicious Brains, takes a look at what’s new in HTTP/2 and what that means for performance best practices going into 2017. Interesting that in one HTTP vs HTTPS test comparing…
WeFoster is targeting community-centric WordPress sites with new hosting platform
Brian Krogsgard
WeFoster is launching a complete hosting platform to target community-centric WordPress sites of all shapes and sizes. I spoke with Bowe Frankema and Marion Gooding about the project last week, to get a sense of their aims, and to see…
Dailymotion shared about their experiment with HHVM…
Brian Krogsgard
Dailymotion shared about their experiment with HHVM and the process of moving to PHP 7. It took them less than a week to migrate the 10+ year old PHP codebase. The performance is on par with HHVM, but with greater reliability,…
ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways
Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…
Jon Yablonski shares numerous tips and…
Brian Krogsgard
Jon Yablonski shares numerous tips and suggestions regarding web performance optimization for designers.
Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints
Brian Krogsgard
There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandà of 10up. In the first core development…
GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP
Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.
