Building the foundation for WordPress performance excellence
Focused, longitudinal, action-ready. WPindex.io monitors a handpicked cohort of WordPress sites to reveal what truly improves performance—and what reliably hurts it—so teams optimize with evidence, not noise.
Target monitoring of 5 million WordPress websites with significant traffic (minimum 1,000 unique daily visitors), ensuring our dataset represents meaningful, real-world usage patterns across diverse industries, regions, and use cases.
Conduct continuous, long-term monitoring to capture performance evolution over months and years, revealing seasonal patterns, update impacts, and the long-term effects of optimization strategies.
Combine laboratory data (PageSpeed Insights) with Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) field data to bridge the gap between synthetic testing and real-user experiences, providing a complete performance picture.
Transform raw performance data into actionable insights through advanced correlation analysis, pattern recognition, and machine learning to identify the factors that truly drive WordPress performance.
Create authoritative performance benchmarks for WordPress sites across different categories, hosting environments, plugin combinations, and theme frameworks. These baselines will serve as industry standards for measuring and comparing WordPress performance.
Leverage big data analytics to uncover correlations between configuration choices and performance outcomes. Understand how factors like hosting infrastructure, caching strategies, image optimization, and plugin selections impact real-world performance.
Synthesize findings into comprehensive "performance recipes" — proven configurations and optimization strategies that consistently deliver superior performance. These evidence-based recommendations will guide developers, agencies, and site owners toward optimal setups.
Build predictive models that forecast performance impacts of configuration changes, helping stakeholders make informed decisions before implementing modifications. Anticipate performance degradation and proactively recommend preventive measures.
The comprehensive dataset and insights generated by this project will serve as the foundation for next-generation WordPress performance technologies and services:
Evidence-based optimization guidelines, performance debugging insights, and best practice validation
Infrastructure optimization strategies, caching configuration recommendations, and competitive benchmarking
Performance impact analysis, optimization opportunities, and compatibility insights
Clear performance recommendations, comparative analysis, and ROI-focused optimization strategies
As our dataset grows and matures, we envision WPindex.io becoming the authoritative source for WordPress performance intelligence. Future expansions may include: