performance

WordPress 5.0.1 was released yesterday as a security release with fixes for seven vulnerabilities that were privately disclosed. It includes … Continue reading WordPress 5.0.2 to Bring Major Performance Improvements, Scheduled for December 19 →

Milan Dinić, a WordPress developer based in Serbia, has released his commonWP plugin that enables WordPress sites to use the … Continue reading New commonWP Plugin Enables WordPress Sites to Use the Free jsDelivr CDN →

Nearly a year ago, we published information about a new project by Arūnas Liuiza, a WordPress plugin developer, called Measure … Continue reading Results of the Measure Jetpack Project Likely to Be Published After WordCamp Stockholm in November →

WordPress caching plugins are notorious for being packed full of confusing options, spammy with upsells, and difficult to uninstall. Users … Continue reading Simple Cache: A New One-Click Install Caching Plugin for WordPress →

When people ask the question, “Can WordPress scale?” they are often pointed to some of the largest websites running on … Continue reading Pantheon Launches Community Resource for Scaling WordPress →

In 2010 Google patented its methods for using resource load times in ranking search results. The published patent describes how … Continue reading WP Asset Clean Up Plugin Removes Unused Styles and Scripts →

WP Rocket is celebrating its second year in business. The commercial caching plugin for WordPress launched two years ago in … Continue reading WP Rocket Reports $355K in Annual Revenue After 2 Years in Business →

This week HHVM developers shared the results of their first ever open source performance lockdown. HHVM is Facebook’s open source … Continue reading HHVM Demonstrated to be 18.7% Faster Than PHP 7 on a WordPress Workload →

Sucuri launched a new free performance tool today. The Global Website Performance Tester allows anyone to enter a URL and … Continue reading Sucuri is Building a Comprehensive Alternative to CloudFlare →

Mark Jaquith, one of the lead developers of WordPress, released Cache Buddy on WordPress.org over the weekend. His new plugin … Continue reading Mark Jaquith Releases Cache Buddy: A Plugin to Enhance Popular WordPress Caching Solutions →

This post was contributed by Ryan Hellyer. He is from New Zealand, lives in Germany, and works as a full-time … Continue reading Persistent Object Caching →