Pantheon debuts on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace, which provides its customers access to an ecosystem of over 2,000 software as a service, virtual machine, content management system, development stack, and web service solutions — all optimized for the Google Cloud.
Your website has a job to do, and as a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partner, Pantheon provides the best performance-enhancing, results-driven tools that allow users to accelerate website performance. Learn more about this partnership in the following post.
Website performance used to be an arcane discipline, something for tech folks to tinker with. Most marketers I know aren’t thrilled by the prospect of wringing a few extra milliseconds of response time out of their site.
But it’s high time for marketers to care about performance. A slow website can directly affect your customer experience, your search visibility, and as a result, your marketing-attributed revenue.
People visit your site for a reason. They want to read an article, or get information about an event, or shop and compare products, or something else important to them. Your site should move at the speed of their thought.
After months of preparation, learning, and investing, you finally have a full-fledged website up and ready to go! The design is attractive yet simple, the text is crisp and punchy, and you’re excited to see how customers react. Before making the site live, you conduct a quick test run only to realize that the pages aren’t loading as fast as you’d hoped.
When it comes to navigating today’s digital landscape, first impressions are everything. With customers and users clocking in more screen time than ever, a strong web presence is where everyone is shifting their focus.
As web developers, when we get hired to make a website, we might forget the driving assumption behind that expense: companies believe a better website will help them make more money. Why else would they be willing to invest in development, design and ongoing maintenance other than a belief in the potential of a return on their investment?
Editorial note: updated in January 2024.
Doug Cone, Technical Engagement Manager here at Pantheon, and Sienna Svob, Developer at Blue State, surveyed how much energy the web uses, along with all the earth-warming CO2 emissions it produces during DrupalCon North America 2021. Learn more in the following post.
“If the internet were an actual country, it is estimated that it would be the seventh-largest polluting country in the world.”
In a recent webinar, Marc Cracco, Director of Technology at Wondersauce, discussed how to analyze, set, and reach your website goals. You can watch the full webinar to learn key WebOps concepts, how to get buy-in from team members and stakeholders, and how to set and measure meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs).