Performance & Scalability
From front-end performance and fast loading websites, to technical backend engineering to optimise your publishing platform. We share our insights on how to view performance and scalability as a pragmatic return on investment focused business.
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The Yoast SEO plugin is a great tool for quickly and easily managing many aspects of search engine optimisation on a WordPress site.
However, when using Yoast on large scale publishing sites you will run into some performance bottlenecks. So we’ve developed some workarounds.
How digital publishers and media owners can measure and optimise website performance.
At The Code Company, we strive to maintain our industry-leading requirements of code quality in all work that we produce.
The key to having a robust quality assurance (QA) program is in not relying on a single process or check to ensure quality. There needs to be a range of proactive and reactive checks and balances to confirm that standards are being met at every point along the projects.
Google Tag Manager allows you to track events on your website. Here are some ideas for publishers on what events you can track and what it means.
Digital publishers are investing in personalisation on their platforms. Here are some ways to make it easier to measure the success of these projects.
Website performance and richer editorial experiences were our key take aways from WP Engine’s Australian Summit that took place in Sydney August 2019.
The Code Company has been working with WordPress at scale for almost a decade. During that time, we’ve been asked to work on or build high-scale ecommerce sites. It is our view, that while WooCommerce is a suitable platform for certain types of ecommerce stores, we have found that it is not suitable for high…
As part of a custom jobs board project that was built on top of WordPress, we had to build a system that was able to send over 100,000 personalised emails over a very short period of time all within the WordPress ecosystem. This presents some scaling and infrastructure challenges that we wanted to share. The…
Software upgrades are always easy to put off, because they are hard. This is certainly the case with WordPress 5.0 which was released on December 6 2018. In my mind, nothing since WordPress 4.2, that introduced a new database character-set, back in 2015, has there been such a signifiant update to WordPress. The WordPress 5.0…
One of the most common reasons new developers and perhaps existing WordPress developers resent WordPress sometimes is because of how it stores so much application configuration in the database, and most commonly, stored in different structures and in different locations. More traditional web applications would be coded up and the database is essentially stateless. By…
As of late, we’ve had a couple of large web application projects where the deliverables did not include any CMS functionality. That is, they were purely a functionality based web application. I’ve been reflecting on both of these projects, and how we approached each one for a couple of reasons. Firstly, did we make the…
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