How UP Globe Brings Global User Perspective to WordPress Speed Testing with IPRoyal

About the Client

UP Globe is a WordPress plugin that offers site owners a clear, global overview of their website’s performance. It’s designed for businesses, e-commerce stores, bloggers, and WordPress administrators who prioritize providing a fast and seamless experience for users worldwide.

As its creator explains: “While polishing my WordPress blog and testing it against various SEO and performance tools, I was always curious about website loading speeds from different locations. At the same time, I was dealing with another task involving proxies. That’s where the idea evolved to merge these two spaces.”

The plugin makes performance testing quick and easy, eliminating complex workflows or unnecessary registrations.

The Challenge

Internet users are notoriously impatient. Studies show that a website taking longer than three seconds to load can lose significant traffic. Many existing tools provide speed testing, but they mostly rely on static data centers with limited geographic coverage.

“Most tools can perform testing, but none of them in a way that is close to customers,” the plugin creator notes. For website owners who need real, user-like-experience testing, this limitation makes it challenging to gather accurate, actionable data on how their site performs in different parts of the world.

To overcome these limitations, the creator needed a solution that offered broad geographic coverage, reliable rotation, and multiple ISPs. Residential Proxies were an obvious choice.

The Solution

UP Globe offers a unique testing method by integrating IPRoyal’s Residential Proxies into its core functionality. Users select countries from the dashboard, and the plugin performs lightweight Time-to-First-Byte (TTFB) checks using HEAD requests. This approach minimizes data usage while delivering performance metrics that reflect real user experience.

“Proxies actually play a key role in this solution,” the creator explains. “Each minute, HTTP requests are made toward the target via residential proxies in a specific country with several retries. IPRoyal ensures IP rotation, so there’s nothing to worry about at this level.”

The development journey from a concept to a working plugin took several months. Along the way, there were some unexpected hurdles. These include navigating the detailed WordPress plugin approval process and managing proxy-related costs.

The Results

UP Globe has provided WordPress admins with a simple yet powerful way to understand how their websites perform across the globe. By leveraging IPRoyal’s Residential Proxies, the plugin provides realistic testing and insights with no technical knowledge required.

The creator reflects on the impact it has had: “The biggest win for me is seeing users realize how much their website experience differs across countries and how quickly they can improve it with just a few clicks.”

With this approach, users can easily identify performance bottlenecks that were previously invisible. They can optimize their websites efficiently and trust the data they receive is accurate, thanks to IPRoyal’s global network of residential proxy servers.

Key benefits of UP Globe include:

• Accurate insights from 195 countries
• Reliable IP rotation and geographic diversity
• Easy-to-use interface with minimal setup required
• Cost-efficient testing through TTFB HEAD requests

Looking ahead, the creator of UP Globe plans on bringing global performance insights to other platforms. He also encourages technically minded users to leverage IPRoyal proxies directly, noting: “ It is fun and easy with rich IPRoyal documentation .”