Case Study: Android Authority achieves 6x faster performance with WP Engine Headless WordPress

Android Authority boosts speed 6x with WP Engine

Android Authority, a major digital publication with 50 million monthly readers, faced challenges scaling its site performance to support massive traffic growth without disrupting its publisher workflows. To future-proof their site and improve speed tied to revenue, they partnered with WP Engine to upgrade from a traditional WordPress setup.

WP Engine implemented its Headless WordPress solution, which decoupled the front-end from the WordPress back-end. This provided radical performance improvements, including a 6x increase in Lighthouse metrics and pages loading over 30% faster. These enhancements led to a revenue increase within the first month and made Android Authority faster than all its competitors on both desktop and mobile.

Android Authority

Tayo Onabule

Head of Product, Android Authority