Last week at MidCamp in Chicago, I presented a session called “Why Your Site Is Slow.”
In this presentation, I review some of the common answers to the question of why a site is slow. Surface-level technical issues like slow queries and redundant JavaScript files are often blamed when a site is slow, although there are numerous factors that can affect performance. In practice, web teams need to ask “why” repeatedly in order to get to the root cause.
The phrase "agile digital marketing" can sound misleading. When you hear it, you might picture a copywriter scrambling to create a webpage at the speed of light. The definition, however, refers to a more effective, faster process for managing workflows and prioritizing tasks.
Consumers want a personalized shopping experience. Here are three steps to getting started with website personalization.
Many companies make the mistake of thinking that building a website is all it takes to bring in traffic for years to come. But when companies view a site as a set-it-and-forget-it proposition, users tend to forget it, too. That's when traffic dries up.
When it comes to improving your website, you need to set clear goals and track key performance indicators. Find out which metrics you should be using and how they impact your site's performance.
We're going to turn our focus to the application layer and look at the kinds of threats we need to guard against in Drupal and WordPress.
Marketing and developer teams often speak different languages and have conflicting priorities. However, many companies are discovering there are two sides to the same coin: every business KPI has a corresponding technical metric that directly influences its success.
Here are five high-level business KPIs and the website performance metrics you should track.
Pantheon's Managed HTTPS service now features fully dedicated certificates and an updated go-live experience. This is made possible in partnership with Let’s Encrypt and Fastly.
Using the HTTP Archive—presented by Google at WordCamp US—which tracks detailed performance data for hundreds of thousands of sites in the Alexa top 1M, I was able to show that the median WordPress site on Pantheon is 3x faster than elsewhere:
Today we’re excited to announce Pantheon’s new Australia, Canada, and European Union regions. Whether you need your WordPress or Drupal site to meet data residency requirements or have a performance use case not solved by caching requests through Pantheon’s Global CDN, we’ve got you covered. Now when you create a new site on Pantheon, you can select from one of four regions across the globe.