On LinkedIn we have come across several posts indicating that the Argentine outlet El Cronista, one of the most important in the economic field, is already operating with The Washington Post technology. It is a new client for Arc XP in Spanish speaking Latin America, a region where it has achieved wide adoption.
According to managing director Christian Findling, who confirmed some time ago that the newspaper was moving to Arc XP, the project “represents much more than a technological change, it is a comprehensive commitment to agility, editorial quality and user experience”.
“Arc XP will allow us to accelerate content production, optimize workflows, integrate new tools and gain flexibility to continue evolving in an increasingly dynamic digital ecosystem. All with a clear goal, to enhance our journalism and strengthen our relationship with our audience, which relies on El Cronista to understand the economic and financial heartbeat of the country and the region, he continued.”
This innovation has also been made possible thanks to the work of Ingala as an integrated partner, whom we already know from the announcement of its agreement with Glide. They have described this project as a major “challenge”, “a highly complex project that involved coordinating multiple teams, migrating both large volumes of content and an important base of registered users on the site, and ensuring the operational continuity of a media outlet that reports in real time”, in the words of its cofounder, Matías Contreras.
The other Ingala cofounder, Gabriel Martínez Corti, also on LinkedIn, says that the project was entrusted to them at the beginning of the year and that it has turned out to be “a huge adventure, full of challenges but also of happiness”.
Launches and migrations of digital newspapers are always very complex projects. It is still too early to know the audience impact of the change, but at CMS MAG we will remain attentive.
Our tests of the home page speed deliver good parameters, although Arc XP is a headless system and therefore the frontend should be decoupled and in reality independent from the backend. It is the frontend that is tested specifically. The Core Web Vitals analysis shows room for improvement but good numbers.
Pingdom reports that the full home page weighs 4,3 Mb and loads from Europe in 2,89 seconds, which is quite good. Congratulations to everyone on the work.
* Original article written in Spanish, translated with AI and reviewed in English by Jorge Mediavilla.
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