Case Study: 9seeds scales The Good Men Project to 3.2M monthly visitors and boosts performance with WP Engine

WP Engine, 9seeds Partnership Fuels The Good Men Project’s Online Growth

9seeds, a WordPress-focused digital agency, worked with publisher The Good Men Project, which was experiencing rapid audience growth, frequent downtime, poor page performance and rising hosting costs. The site’s heavy plugin use, widget-driven homepage (more than 500 queries), many concurrent contributors and limited caching made scaling to a larger audience especially challenging.

9seeds recommended migrating the site to WP Engine and optimized queries and caching while using WP Engine’s developer tools and staging environment; the agencies collaborated closely and relied on WP Engine’s 24/7 support. The result: the site now averages over 3.2 million unique visitors per month with dramatic performance improvements, greater uptime and more reliable, cost-effective scalability.

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