I have been so lame on the blogging front lately. I’ve been consuming less and producing more with a number of projects I am in the middle of. I’ve been grooving on this idea of “scaling back for growth”. Can’t wait to start talking about it more here. Anyway, I’ve been using WPEngine on two projects, ExumaTech and HeroLaunch. The latter is a network of niche social media sites built on WordPress.

The migration to WPEngine has had its challenges, but the performance, along with a number of really nice features like a ready built staging area and restore points, has made it great. The picture below on the performance improvements as per Google Webmaster Tools speaks volumes.

These are the Crawl Stats Googlebot activity in the last 90 days.

So it takes about 1/10th the time to download a page. Thanks @wpengine.

Also, a quick pick from a brainstorming session on our mobile app. I love Balsamiq Mockups and Codiqa. But sometimes nothing beats a white board.