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I tried the "WPEngine speed report" link described in this, and got back a slightly humorous result: > What If WP Engine Were Your WordPress Hosting Company?
by fenomas 12y ago
I tried the "WPEngine speed report" link described in this, and got back a slightly humorous result:
> What If WP Engine Were Your WordPress Hosting Company?
> 0% faster total page-load time!
> Using the techniques detailed below, moving your blog to
> WP Engine would shave 0.0 seconds off your page-load time..
Not meaning to belittle the service, which I'm sure is excellent, but there's a lesson there about preparing automatic reports...
- hawkice 12y agoFor any WPEngine employees reading: I now trust you almost completely on the subject of website speed. This is the perfect opposite of e.g. the A/B testing company that will show a statistically significant improvement from no change at all -- if I see that you aren't overstating the case, I care about the results and trust they are valid.
- fenomas 12y agoActually it looked more like a possible bug. WPEngine's report gave me an "F" grade on 4 of its 6 result categories (my site is just wordpress out of the box), plus it reported a great many metrics to many significant digits, so it'd be odd if everything came out precisely equal to their offering. (There was no detail on where the "0%" came from, though.)
- tnpuig 12y agoActually a few things can cause that state. 1. You could be on us already so we'd say "Hey, can't be faster than us, on us" 2. The speed test API could have gotten wonky and not returned a result. 3. Could be a bug I'll check on if any of those are true and thanks for the heads up.