Key Points
- 250,000+ article archive with 150+ new articles curated daily from 2,000+ sources
- Custom search engine built specifically for healthcare topics, with phrase stemming for accurate results
- Backend curation tools increased productivity 15 times, significantly improving the value of the website to a broader market
Why It Matters
- Healthcare professionals need fast access to current news across a fragmented media landscape without wading through irrelevant results
- The platform’s search quality is a key differentiator, handling specialized terminology that general search engines handle poorly
- Demonstrates that WordPress can perform fast even with significant customization and large amounts of data
- Presented performance and security challenges that refined aSolution.company’s expertise, as the healthcare data archive is a target for data mining
RamaOnHealthcare has become the top news aggregator and “curation engine” for healthcare leaders in the new digital healthcare economy. Subscribers include executives, directors, analysts, professors, and students from large and small organizations. It is also used by large teams from major organizations in their workflows.
Significant development over the past few years has significantly increased the amount of articles curated daily, pushing WordPress beyond intended limits. The custom search engine is exceptional at providing accurate and complete results on many given topics. It is highly optimized for SEO with a high rate of organic search traffic and even referral traffic from AI.
The Technical Details
- 150+ healthcare articles curated daily
- 250,000+ curated and original articles
- 2,000+ sources
- Thousands of daily users with a high retention rate
- Custom topic-based search engine with phrase stemming for healthcare
- Custom RSS feed reader to quickly find and scrape new articles
- Server and browser-based scraping of articles from popular sources
- Custom UX to quickly add, categorize, and tag new articles
- Optimized for performance
- Custom sponsor/ad plugin
- Contact form
- SEO
- Avada WordPress theme
- Secure, high-performance AWS Lightsail cloud hosting
