{"id":89681,"date":"2019-08-12T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?p=89681"},"modified":"2023-10-11T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:06:25","slug":"wp-engine-platform-becomes-40-faster-making-it-the-unequivocal-performance-leader-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/case-studies\/wp-engine-platform-becomes-40-faster-making-it-the-unequivocal-performance-leader-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Engine Platform Becomes 40% Faster Making it the Unequivocal Performance Leader in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Aug. 12, 2019 \u2013<\/strong> WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform<\/a> (DXP), today announced it has become the first WordPress Digital Experience Platform to adopt Google Cloud Platform\u2019s newest infrastructure, the Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) (C2). With these enhancements, WP Engine\u2019s platform offers performance that is 40 percent faster than anyone else in WordPress. For the most demanding and compute-intensive websites, only WP Engine can provide the unrivaled speed, security, intelligence, expertise and award-winning global support to help companies of all sizes win online with WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading Performance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WP Engine shares our customers\u2019 desire to push the performance envelope and power the most breathtaking digital experiences in WordPress. Increasingly, success online is determined by how well a site\u2019s infrastructure can repeatedly deliver a high level of performance across a variety of network conditions and devices. A mere one-second delay<\/a> can result in a seven percent conversion loss and an 11 percent drop in page views, which can translate into millions of lost dollars and potential customers. Performance matters, and with this new infrastructure, WP Engine can offer WordPress sites unrivaled performance and unmatched speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this announcement we\u2019re unequivocally offering the fastest infrastructure there is in WordPress today,\u201d said Jason Cohen, Founder and Chief Technology Officer for WP Engine. \u201cIt\u2019s thanks to our strong partnership with Google that we were able to work closely to integrate our technology with theirs and become the first to market to do so. We are excited to partner with Google Cloud Platform on this achievement and help push the state of the art of what\u2019s possible with WordPress digital experiences for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Innovation, Better Performance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the past quarter, WP Engine has been hard at work adapting its proprietary WordPress optimization stack to offer compute-optimized VMs by Google. These compute-optimized VMs (C2) offer high per-thread performance and memory speeds that benefit the most compute-intensive workloads. The new instances can power the most demanding and performance-hungry applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, and single-threaded and other compute-intensive applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continual Performance Improvements at Scale<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Platform performance is WP Engine\u2019s highest priority, and the company is constantly tuning the parameters of its Digital Experience Platform to ensure it is optimized for WordPress performance for all its customers. By approaching performance with the mindset that is a product that\u2019s never finished, WP Engine is constantly making performance improvements to provide all its customers\u2014from shared to dedicated plans\u2014with faster response times across their sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent performance optimizations include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n