Interesting results from the ACF 2023 annual survey. I’d say it is wildly popular among developers.

The results of the 2023 WordPress hosting performance benchmarks are available. The tests are run across 21 hosting providers and several pricing points from less than $25 to more than $500. There was testing for both WordPress and WooCommerce hosting.

This case study details how Brainstorm Force, the makers of the Astra theme, used Microsoft Clarity to improve their website. Clarity is a behavior analytics tool from Microsoft. Initially I saw Clarity as a competitor to Google Analytics, but today it can integrate with Google Analytics and you can show GA data inside of your Clarity dashboard.

In this chat summary of the core performance team they discuss the impact of loading translations. I had no idea of the performance impact, but it makes sense

I wonder that their possible solutions have no mention on the future Guteberg stage, though maybe that is too far in the future for consideration?

Here is an interesting infographic with a bunch of WordPress stats.

Fines in Europe over the use of Google Analytics! Last week there was a post from the SEO Slim team on Google Analytics alternatives. These court judgements remind me of the findings not too long ago about Google fonts, which lead many to start self-hosting them.

This is an interesting transparency type of report detailing Katie Keith’s experience being a sponsor of WordCamp Europe. She is the co-founder of Barn2 Plugins.

Joost de Valk looks at how the top 10 CMS options are doing. He found that WordPress is at 43.2% market share, which is .2% more than 11 months ago. There are some comments about how the others are doing also.

Note that this report is based on search volume, which is much different than usage. It says that demand for WordPress is up 11.3%, but for WooCommerce only 1%. It also says that there are a million searches a month for plugins and that expensive and fast hosting remains one of the most valuable parts of the WordPress economy.