The WordPress Performance Lab Plugin Goes Live

Over the past six months, a number of our performance specialists at XWP have been supporting teams at Google and Yoast to build and launch the WordPress Performance Lab plugin and work on WordPress Core Performance.  Performance Lab plugin is a collection of modules designed to monitor and enhance the performance of your WordPress site, […]

How to Build a Rocket: Best Practices for Better Web Performance

When it comes to building high-performance websites, small changes to the way your site functions, the content within it, or even the way you work can have a huge effect on user experience. It’s often thought that performance is all about speed—and that’s definitely a big part of it. But at XWP, we believe that […]

Site Performance and How It Impacts Search Ranking

Search engines are in the business of helping people find the things they’re looking for. However, with over 1.6 billion websites, chances are there are multiple very valid options the search engines can present to the searcher. And no one looks at page 2 of the search results. This is where ranking comes in. Search […]

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How to Grow Ad Revenue Without Losing Readers

The more we work with large online publishers, the more we appreciate the impact on-page advertising has on their bottom line. The challenge these companies are facing is that their advertising strategies cannot be set-and-forget. They must evolve. They are realizing that not only is the technology behind advertising ever-changing, the attitudes, expectations, and behaviors […]

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