One of the most common questions we get is, “what does Bright for WordPress do that I can’t do with the SCORMCloud plugin for WordPress?
Invariably the topic of performance comes up. What we say is the performance of the SCORMCloud plugin for WordPress scales according to the # of courses on the page. So it is “linear”. In contrast, Bright performance is flat …. which means more courses doesn’t result in more time.
So today I got a support request from a customer to look at the performance of a page. It seems that they’d embedded 5 courses on the page, but used the SCORMCloud plugin, not bright.
It was taking about 21 seconds for the page to respond:
So I just replaced those embeds with Bright embeds. There’s even a “SCORMCloud classic” embedder template that replicates the look and feel of the SCORMCloud plugin; so you can’t even tell that it was changed.
Then I refreshed the page:
OK even we grant that this call took a bit longer to setup [for DNS lookup]; we killed it. Wait time went from 21.08 seconds to 1.75 seconds.
So with Bright, the page load time is 8% of what it is using the SCORMCloud plugin; or 12x faster. As the SCORMCloud plugin gives linear performance, you can expect it to be 24 times faster for a page w/ 10 courses on it, and so on.
Curious on how to speed up SCORMCloud applications? Ask us …. we do that.