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Meet the RebelMouse Platform: The Highest Performing CMS on the Web

Make sure your site is set up for success in 2024.

In the spring of 2020, Google let the world know that its Core Web Vitals would become the new benchmark for measuring a site's performance in its search results, known as the page experience update. Fast forward to more than a year later in August 2021 when, after much anticipation, Google's page experience update became official.

Since its rollout, developers have felt the impact of how their publishing platforms stack up against the new standard. Important decisions around the architecture of your site can now make or break your site's performance in the eyes of Google.

HTTP Archive, a tracking platform that crawls the web to identify trends and record historical patterns, frequently reports on how top content management systems (CMS) have weathered the page experience update through the creation of its Core Web Vitals Technology Report. RebelMouse has consistently outperformed major CMS platforms on Google's most critical metrics throughout the years.

Getting superior scores on Google's performance benchmarks isn't easy, either. The Ahrefs blog analyzed Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), which is data from actual Chrome users, to see how the web stacks up against Core Web Vitals. Their study found that only 33% of sites on the web are passing Core Web Vitals.

data from Ahrefs tracked on a line chart finds that shows only 33% of sites on the web pass Google's Core Web Vitals From Ahrefs.

Luckily, performing well on Core Web Vitals is possible with thoughtful, strategic changes to your site’s codebase. Here's what you need to know and how we can help.

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RebelMouse Security Update: September 2024
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RebelMouse Security Update: September 2024

At RebelMouse, security is our top priority. We’ve made substantial investments to ensure that our platform stands out as one of the most secure CMS solutions on the market. And in that vein, a year ago we committed to being SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.

SOC 2 Type 2 compliance covers an organization’s controls and operating effectiveness with regard to data security, processing, integrity, privacy, and availability, and committing to this process has been a wonderful match for our security-and-process-minded culture.

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How Journalists Can Use AI: Add Context Based on Archives

A custom-built chatbot based on Raw Story's archives is an essential tool for their newsroom

In an era when misinformation can be rampant around the web, it’s so important to have trusted sources you can turn to for accurate news. One of the most credible sources, that you know you can trust, is quite simply your own team.

John Byrne, founder and CEO of Raw Story, approached us with an interesting idea. He wanted to build an AI editorial tool from the ground up that was based on their content archives. The independent news website, which recently turned 20 years old, is based on delivering news and insights at the breakneck speed of today’s political news cycle. It’s endless. Time is of the essence, as new content is pushed out constantly, so becoming more efficient is really important to their team.

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Threads’ Unremarkable Problem
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Threads’ Unremarkable Problem

Meta launched Threads in response to the spiraling catastrophe of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. It quickly grew to 175 million active users and has become a significant new social platform for Meta.

We keep all of our clients modern through our cloud-based CMS solution, and so integrating with the Threads API as soon as it became available was a no-brainer. We encouraged all of our clients to immediately create and promote their Threads channels. Some of our clients, including George Takei, became very popular very quickly on Threads. It’s an important social platform and it increasingly can drive real traffic and audiences.

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The State of Core Web Vitals, INP, and Organic SEO in 2024
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The State of Core Web Vitals, INP, and Organic SEO in 2024

RebelMouse has been dedicated to being the highest-performing CMS across Core Web Vitals metrics since 2021, when Google signaled the importance it would have on ranking impact and organic traffic. By the fall of 2023, the introduction of INP as a new Core Web Vitals measurement was clear. Unfortunately, being able to test against it was very difficult. Understanding its full impact was even harder.

In March 2024, when INP was officially released, we knew within hours of the update that it was going to be an extremely hard moment for the web. By the time the data came in from Google CrUX reports 45 days later, the confirmation was in. INP had hurt everyone’s performance scores significantly. RebelMouse’s massive advantage across Core Web Vitals was turned into a slight advantage. So, just as we did in 2021, we settled in to start doing some very hard and focused engineering.

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