WordPress Makes A Big PuSH To Speed Up 10.5 Million Blogs
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WordPress Makes A Big PuSH To Speed Up 10.5 Million Blogs .
All 10.5 million blogs on WordPress.com, including TechCrunch, just got more realtime. Any blog hosted on WordPress is now PuSH-enabled , meaning that new posts get pushed out to feed readers such as Google Reader the second they are published. There were WordPress plug-ins that did this before, but now WordPress is doing it automatically for all hosted blogs. PuSH stands for Pubsubhubbub , a realtime protocol designed to speed up RSS which launched at our first Realtime CrunchUp last year. Instead of waiting for your RSS reader to ping the servers for each blog and news site you subscribe to, which can cause a noticeable delay before it actually shows up in your feed reader, it will now be pushed out immediately. The PuSH protocol does away with the constant polling required by RSS. Another way to speed up RSS is through a different protocol called RSSCloud, which WordPress also supports. There are subtle differences between RSSCloud and PuSH , the most significant being that RSSCloud just notifies your feed reader there is something new, while PuSH actually sends the content with the notification via so-called fat pings. Google Reader also supports PuSH, so if you use Google Reader, all WordPress blogs will be updated much faster than before. Not that you’d necessarily notice unless you just came from a blog’s site or saw a link on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz or some other stream first. Let us know in comments if you notice any difference to how fast TechCrunch posts appear in Google Reader. (Photo credit: Flickr/ joiseyshowwa .
It still took about 2 minutes for this post to show up on Google Reader, which is better than the 10 to 15 minutes it used to take before, but still not exactly realtime. We’re getting closer though. .
Erick, not sure about this specific case, but it usually improves over time, and since the hub launched this morning, Greader might not yet be aware of it for the TC feeds. .
So does this mean that future updates for wordpress are going to include this improved functionality too. I mean will my blogs as they are now use this new technology? .
“WordPress is doing it automatically for all hosted blogs” “RSSCloud, which WordPress also supports” “if you use Google Reader, all WordPress blogs will be updated much faster than before” You are confusing WordPress.com, a WordPress MU instance hosted and maintained by Automattic, with the open-source WordPress software package. The announced changes do not automatically apply to self-hosted WordPress blogs but functionality may be added through a plugin. If TechCrunch was still running its own version of WordPress on its own servers it would need additional work before PuSH or RSSCloud support is enabled. .
Erick, do you realise the TC home page now loads extremely slowly since you moved to WordPress.com? It now takes about 20 seconds for me to be able to scroll down the page. As a result, I only read new posts in Google Reader. You may want to try it yourself. .
That’s not entirely true. It loads quickly in Opera 10.5. It loads more slowly in Firefox (it’s maybe three seconds slower- the page draws immediately, but the sidebar takes some time to load up – that’s in Minefield 3.7pre). It takes even longer to load in IE8, but not so long you feel like you’re on dial-up (about 15 seconds on a 1.5MB down connection, but again, the page draws almost immediately – in about three seconds, while the sidebar lags). Interestingly, it takes over 20 seconds to load in Chrome (latest SR Ware Iron port) and in Safari 4, and the sidebar seems like it will never show up. I wanted to check, since the last time I visited TechCrunch (last night? maybe two nights ago?) the pages wouldn’t finish loading, which meant when you scrolled down to the Older Posts link, it wasn’t there, because it hadn’t loaded yet. Kinda annoying. .
Yea, because we are all not getting information fast enough. Maybe they could make it easier for the entire planet to have a blog. A trillion blogs sending information to a trillion bloggers. What an awesome world. Not. Who is complaining they are not getting information fast enough? .
Cool that wordpress.com has this now. TypePad did this several months ago, and I noticed an increase in speed of search results on google. http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/real-time-web-pushing-your-blogs.html .
We have implemented PubSubHubBub in the favit reader way back in August ( http://tinyurl.com/yhrpv7h ) and we have been able to get articles from self hosted WordPress and Blogger blogs literally withing seconds, however the RSS Cloud that Automatic decided to use was not that real-time and I am glad they overcame their ego and decided to adopt the PubSub, now life for all read
All 10.5 million blogs on WordPress.com, including TechCrunch, just got more realtime. Any blog hosted on WordPress is now PuSH-enabled , meaning that new posts get pushed out to feed readers such as Google Reader the second they are published. There were WordPress plug-ins that did this before, but now WordPress is doing it automatically for all hosted blogs. PuSH stands for Pubsubhubbub , a realtime protocol designed to speed up RSS which launched at our first Realtime CrunchUp last year. Instead of waiting for your RSS reader to ping the servers for each blog and news site you subscribe to, which can cause a noticeable delay before it actually shows up in your feed reader, it will now be pushed out immediately. The PuSH protocol does away with the constant polling required by RSS. Another way to speed up RSS is through a different protocol called RSSCloud, which WordPress also supports. There are subtle differences between RSSCloud and PuSH , the most significant being that RSSCloud just notifies your feed reader there is something new, while PuSH actually sends the content with the notification via so-called fat pings. Google Reader also supports PuSH, so if you use Google Reader, all WordPress blogs will be updated much faster than before. Not that you’d necessarily notice unless you just came from a blog’s site or saw a link on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz or some other stream first. Let us know in comments if you notice any difference to how fast TechCrunch posts appear in Google Reader. (Photo credit: Flickr/ joiseyshowwa .
It still took about 2 minutes for this post to show up on Google Reader, which is better than the 10 to 15 minutes it used to take before, but still not exactly realtime. We’re getting closer though. .
Erick, not sure about this specific case, but it usually improves over time, and since the hub launched this morning, Greader might not yet be aware of it for the TC feeds. .
So does this mean that future updates for wordpress are going to include this improved functionality too. I mean will my blogs as they are now use this new technology? .
“WordPress is doing it automatically for all hosted blogs” “RSSCloud, which WordPress also supports” “if you use Google Reader, all WordPress blogs will be updated much faster than before” You are confusing WordPress.com, a WordPress MU instance hosted and maintained by Automattic, with the open-source WordPress software package. The announced changes do not automatically apply to self-hosted WordPress blogs but functionality may be added through a plugin. If TechCrunch was still running its own version of WordPress on its own servers it would need additional work before PuSH or RSSCloud support is enabled. .
Erick, do you realise the TC home page now loads extremely slowly since you moved to WordPress.com? It now takes about 20 seconds for me to be able to scroll down the page. As a result, I only read new posts in Google Reader. You may want to try it yourself. .
That’s not entirely true. It loads quickly in Opera 10.5. It loads more slowly in Firefox (it’s maybe three seconds slower- the page draws immediately, but the sidebar takes some time to load up – that’s in Minefield 3.7pre). It takes even longer to load in IE8, but not so long you feel like you’re on dial-up (about 15 seconds on a 1.5MB down connection, but again, the page draws almost immediately – in about three seconds, while the sidebar lags). Interestingly, it takes over 20 seconds to load in Chrome (latest SR Ware Iron port) and in Safari 4, and the sidebar seems like it will never show up. I wanted to check, since the last time I visited TechCrunch (last night? maybe two nights ago?) the pages wouldn’t finish loading, which meant when you scrolled down to the Older Posts link, it wasn’t there, because it hadn’t loaded yet. Kinda annoying. .
Yea, because we are all not getting information fast enough. Maybe they could make it easier for the entire planet to have a blog. A trillion blogs sending information to a trillion bloggers. What an awesome world. Not. Who is complaining they are not getting information fast enough? .
Cool that wordpress.com has this now. TypePad did this several months ago, and I noticed an increase in speed of search results on google. http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/real-time-web-pushing-your-blogs.html .
We have implemented PubSubHubBub in the favit reader way back in August ( http://tinyurl.com/yhrpv7h ) and we have been able to get articles from self hosted WordPress and Blogger blogs literally withing seconds, however the RSS Cloud that Automatic decided to use was not that real-time and I am glad they overcame their ego and decided to adopt the PubSub, now life for all read
