Tag: benchmarks

  • Progress Report: Measure Jetpack Benchmark Project

    Progress Report: Measure Jetpack Benchmark Project

    Late in 2015, Arūnas Liuiza, a WordPress plugin developer, announced a new project called Measure Jetpack. Measure Jetpack is an independent, comprehensive series of benchmarks that will show how much impact Jetpack has on a site’s performance. Over the last few months, little information has been shared on the project’s status. I reached out to Liuiza…

  • Measure Jetpack: An Independent Project Aimed at Measuring Jetpack’s Performance

    Measure Jetpack: An Independent Project Aimed at Measuring Jetpack’s Performance

    Just about every time we publish an article about Jetpack, one or more readers leaves a comment similar to the following, I don’t use Jetpack because it slows down my site. Many of the comments don’t link to or provide data that backs up their claim. Outside of the benchmarks produced by the BruteProtect team…

  • Benchmarks Indicate Jetpack Doesn’t Negatively Impact Site Loading Times

    Benchmarks Indicate Jetpack Doesn’t Negatively Impact Site Loading Times

    Jetpack is a WordPress plugin maintained by Automattic and has more than 30 different modules. The modules provide a variety of features including, contact forms, stats, and related posts. Part of Jetpack’s reputation in the WordPress community is that it’s bloated and slows down websites. Sam Hotchkiss, who is part of the Jetpack team, has…

  • Page.ly Launches New CDN Called PressCDN

    Page.ly has announced a brand new CDN service called PressCDN. Page.ly has partnered with a number of companies in order to provide a global distribution network. The biggest selling point they are pushing is speed. For those that don’t know, CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A CDN is a content delivery network that stores…

  • The Impact Plugins Have On WordPress Loading Times

    Dev4Press has an interesting post that contains performance benchmark numbers that show just how much of an impact certain plugins have on loading times within WordPress. Amongst the 35 tested plugins are bbPress, W3 Total Cache, WooCommerce and a few of the plugins developed by Millan. I as well as many others were shocked to…