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.

There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.

This is a pretty interesting comparison of hosting providers. It spans a three year period looking at speed, consistence over time, and cost.

I noticed some changes in the w3techs monthly report related to WordPress. I compared February and April’s reports. Here are some changes:

• WordPress market share increased 1/10th of a percent to 43.3%. This was down or stagnate for a long time, so first recent increase.
• Version 6.x adoption is up almost 2%.
• Elementor’s share of WordPress is up 0.8% since February.
• WooCommerce is up 1/10th of a percent.
• WPBakery is down slightly.
• This month they added Bricks and Breakdance to the tracking.

On Wednesday there was a “Hallway Hangout” to discuss using the Site Editor for client sites. Here is a recap summary and the video recording. From the recap it looks like a number of pain points were identified.