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The website, <em>www.worldbookday.com<\/em>, hosts all sorts of interactive content, in which their agency, Complete Control, helped design.<\/p>\n<p>According to Complete Control, this year&#8217;s World Book Day (2 March 2017) had around 3.5 million consecutive page views on the days leading up to the event. In this case study, read about how World\u00a0Book Day&#8217;s website remained 100 percent online during this time with the help of WP Engine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WP Engine provides a seamless, hassle-free service. They are always on hand and quick to respond. Everything that needs to happen, happens!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Kirsten Grant, Director of World Book Day<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Book Day is one of the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the world. Leading up to the event, teachers and parents flock to the website to get ideas and download resources for the day&#8217;s activities (the website also gets a ton of traffic referrals from social media). 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