Google will work hard to improve the speed of displaying webpages on WordPress sites

The site created and managed by the world's largest CMS "WordPress" has difficulty in terms of page display speed. So, Google, aiming at improving the speed of displaying web pages, is working on improving the page display speed of the site in cooperation with WordPress.

Google's Presence at WordCamp US
https://torquemag.io/2017/12/google-and-wordpress/

The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosystem
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Google is committed to improving page display speed for mobile from 2015AMPA tool that can promote web site optimization level "Mobile Website Speed ​​Testing ToolWe have strengthened our efforts toward building more comfortable websites by publishing " Furthermore, since July 2018, we announced that we will incorporate the element of "page display speed" in the search ranking of the mobile version, and we are striving to further enhance page display speed.

Google announces policy to add "display speed of website" to ranking element of mobile search - GIGAZINE


Google tackles enhancing the display speed of mobile pages shows that most searches are running from mobile terminalsdataBecause there is. On sites with slow page display speeds, the user experience is degraded and adversely affecting your site's conversions, so increasing the speed of page display on your site is a direct problem to Google's interests

With an overwhelming share of 59% in CMS, WordPress has grown to become an indispensable service for the web now being used to build 29% of the web as a whole. However, among the CMS, data that WordPress is used is inferior to the page display speed.

The following Google-created graph compares the performance of web display speed of WordPress use site and site using CMS other than WordPress, and shows that the smaller the number (the shorter the graph), the higher the performance. In comparison of processing speed according to request, WordPress is inferior to other CMS with all indices of font, HTML, CSS, JS, Img, comprehensive.


You can also see that the WordPress site is slow, even by comparing by page loading data size.


Page loading method By another comparison, the WordPress site struggled overall.


The problem that the page display speed of the site using WordPress which occupies 30% of the whole is slow can be improved if 30% can be resolved if it can be resolved, it is a serious matter that can not be overlooked as Google. So, Google actively participates in the development of the WordPress ecosystem, and we are beginning to increase the page display speed of WordPress usage site.

The Google team also participated in the largest "WordCamp US" at the WordPress developer conference held in December 2017. Google's content and ecosystem development team, who joined WordCamp US, said, "Our goal is to work with the WordPress community to start discussions on the overall performance of the WordPress ecosystem," said data on performance mentioned above We are doing a presentation including.

[WordCamp US] WordPress State of the Union - Google Slide


In order to make performance improvements exclusive to WordPress platform Google,RecruitmentI am starting. Furthermore, it is expected that not only performance improvement but also introduction of PWA (Progressive Web Apps) etc will be promoted.