Arc XP Is a Risky Bet
When most people hear about Arc XP (formerly Arc Publishing), it's typically mentioned along with The Washington Post or Jeff Bezos. While the associations are great publicity, it also highlights that Arc XP may be a small fish in the big WaPo/Amazon pond. Is their CMS a priority business, with enough funds and resources allocated to keep up with the industry? Or is it a side project that's sometimes a distraction?
The reality is that Arc XP, launched in 2016, falls short when it comes to editorial tools and the robust developer platform that modern-day publishers need. And while Arc XP boasts a sizable sales force, it can't mask a platform that is years behind in the development cycle. As a result, Arc XP publishers end up with websites and progressive web apps powered by underwhelming tech that yields poor page speed scores, at a time when publishers can't afford to have low-performing sites.
Today, Google is heavily penalizing site experiences with poor site performance, and potential customers are known to quickly abandon slow pages. When one also considers the steep investment Arc XP requires, it's a risk publishers shouldn't take.
RebelMouse Was Built to Solve Publisher Problems
RebelMouse, the brainchild of former Huffington Post CTO Andrea Berry, was designed to address systemic problems that publishers experience with hastily built CMS tech. We focus on building the best products with the latest technologies that publishing teams love using. Problems with page speed and low pages per visit? Failing Google's Core Web Vitals test? We've solved these problems for you. Looking for opportunities for editors to have a better experience? We've solved this as well.
But don't just take our word for it. Compare the Google PageSpeed Insights scores of sites powered by Arc XP and RebelMouse. The difference is clear when we look at the performance scores of major companies using Arc XP...
- Click2Houston/KPRC-TV (on Arc XP)
- The Chosun Daily (on Arc XP)
- The Minnesota Star Tribune (on Arc XP)
...and compare them against the scores RebelMouse clients enjoy.
- Brit + Co (on RebelMouse)
- Raw Story (on RebelMouse)
- Reliabilityweb (on RebelMouse)
With RebelMouse, our clients get a platform that delivers in ways that are truly meaningful to organic reach and traffic growth.
We're the Right Platform for Every Stakeholder
We've proudly built a fully extensible platform that actually achieves the goals that CEOs, CTOs, and CMOs need their digital product to fulfill. Our authoring tools make editorial, audience development, and social teams efficient and savvy, thanks to proprietary technology that's been engineered to optimize content across platforms. Likewise, our analytics tools make your marketing and strategy teams feel happy and supported. We give them digestible data to understand and better optimize content for strategies that drive meaningful traffic. Our AI-enabled design tools appeal to product and revenue teams because of our next-level customization control and flexibility within site design and performance. And our platform is a developer-friendly solution for engineers to deliver far better results to their companies without straining tech resources.
Learn From the Best Tech and Team
With RebelMouse, you get the right technology that keeps teams innovative, efficient, and happy in a cost-effective way. We teach publishers how to build high-performing web experiences and traffic growth that's hard to replicate anywhere else. It's why RebelMouse is the best CMS platform you could choose to help move your company forward.
