GTMetrix is doing away with its guest mode and changing its plans.

Here are some highlights from the State of the Woo 2023 keynote. Interesting that 33% of the top 1 million online store are powered by WooCommerce.

For people who have been following the NASA use of WordPress, this article provides a lot more background information. It looks like a clear win for WordPress across a lot of dimensions.

This is an interesting resource. It has Gutenberg-related stats from WordPress.com and sites running JetPack. I don’t want to ruin your Friday, but the Spacer Block is used more often than the Button Block.

Jamie Marsland did some research on ahrefs and found some interesting information about website traffic for large WordPress brands.

This post on the make blog retrospectively looks at performance improvements gained in WordPress 6.3 over 6.2. Some good progress on mobile and desktop. Note that the discussion about the emoji loader script just means it has gotten more efficient. If you don’t need to add emoji support there is still a performance boost to disabling it.

Create a plugin to add a column to the post listing with the article word count. Surprised, not surprised? Four of the six completed the task without issue.

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.