A modern version makes your WordPress site run faster

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Information page about PHP versions and updates, to be used through the WordPress.org project.

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2996

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A modern version makes your WordPress site run faster #1

Open schlessera opened 6 years ago

schlessera commented 6 years ago

Newer PHP versions generally run faster than older versions.

For site-owners: improved loading times improve user engagement and conversions. For hosters: improved loading times means less resources used per server, or more hosted sites per server.

felixarntz commented 6 years ago

This only makes a significant argument for PHP7+.

My1 commented 6 years ago

@felixarntz I honestly would love to know how much performance and stuff any workarounds for PHP5.2-5.5 (everything that's EOL) take, also end of next year, PHP 5.6 (and 7.0 even a little earlier) also will be EOL meaning the only maintained PHP versions are 7.1 and higher