Karol Król from the ThemeIsle team has conducted a hosting survey most years since 2014 and has compiled the raw data from each year into a Google Sheet.

Vladimír Smitka continues his security testing and education series related to hosting providers, this time looking at PHP configuration issues. Well worth the time to read.

Amber Hinds tests the accessibility of a number of page builders.

Some stats collected by Joost regarding market share over time.

Here is another installment in Vladimir Smitka’s series about security and hosting providers. An interesting read.

Alex Denning of Ellipsis, an SEO strategy firm, shared their analysis of the Google document leak. They fed sections of the documentation to GPT-4o to get its summary and analysis. Some of the things I got from reading the article are:

• The leaked docs closely align with information that came out in the court case.
• Google assumes anything put into writing will get out.
• Google answered questions about ranking that were technically truthful, but were misleading.
• That content is very important, but that “Click is King.”

This is an interesting collection of WordPress stats covering a range of topics.

Another Divi 5 progress report. This one talks about the transition from Divi 4 to Divi 5 and speed improvements.

They have been doing a good job communicating. I’m sure that helps to inspire confidence for their users.

Hardcore SEO – There were recently some Google document leaks about its indexing and ranking systems. As some have suspected, Google representatives have mislead the public related to ranking factors. This article takes a pretty deep look into the leaded information and is not for the light of heart. Nevertheless, it is interesting and revealing.