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After moving Clinton Electronics’ aging ecommerce site to a more agile solution, they\u00a0found most of the functionality they needed. However, they still wanted their site to perform faster than before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe performance increases [on PHP 7] over PHP 5.x can make a significant difference in your page load speed and the number of requests you can handle at once with the same hardware,” said Zach Stepek, Parter, Development and Strategy at Mindsize\u00a0who worked with Clinton Electronics to design and develop a new WooCommerce and WordPress-powered site.<\/p>\n

In this case study, read about why Clinton Electronics decided to make the switch from PHP 5.5 to PHP 7 and the results they saw after the switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After moving Clinton Electronics’ aging ecommerce site to a more agile solution, they\u00a0found most of the functionality they needed. However, they still wanted their site to perform faster than before. \u201cThe performance increases [on PHP 7] over PHP 5.x can make a significant difference in your page load speed and the number of requests you…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-topic":[905,912,901],"resource-role":[896,906,897,899],"resource-type":[914],"class_list":["post-24846","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nClinton Electronics Switches To PHP 7, Sees 60% Site Speed Increase<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Clinton Electronics shares their experience with WP Engine on their experience with site speed after switching to PHP 7. 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