Friday, April 26, 2013

WPEngine Review - How Changing Host Earnt Me An Extra $16609

www.matthewwoodward.co.uk This video will show you how by just moving my host to WPEngine I was able to increase conversion on my site by nearly 13% which lead to an increase of $16609 in profits. Full Transcript Hi Guys Matthew Woodward here and today I'm going to show you how I earnt an extra $16609 just by moving my host to Wp Engine. We are also going to take a look at pros and cons of the service And I'll show you just how easy it is to move your own site over! So let's talk about site speed quickly. The load time of your site has a direct impact on your profits. A 1 second delay in load time decreases conversions by 7% On top of that site speed now plays a role in your search engine rankings as Google want to deliver great user experiences. And great user experiences are born on fast sites. So what does that actually mean? Well based on 10000 unique visitors per month with an average order value of $20 and a 5% conversion rate and 5 second load time meant I was losing out on $8998 for every extra second the site took to load. That's a huge amount of money to be leaving on the table so with that in mind I decided to do something about it. I quickly realised that my cheap shared hosting was letting me down and couldn't handle the traffic. After much research I decided to move to the wordpress hosting specialists WPEngine which costs $29 per month - but was it actually worth it? To find out I tested the speed of my site 5 times from 3 locations to get an average result ...

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