Hey there,

First things first...

Thank you.

The response to the AI Visibility Report has been more than I hoped for. The replies, the shares, the operators writing in to say the traffic picture finally makes sense.

Arival even featured it in their newsletter yesterday. 

If you read it, shared it, or sent me your thoughts: thank you. Seriously.

And if you haven't read it yet, it's free, no email gate:

Read the 2026 AI Visibility Report →

Now... the report wasn't the only thing we've been heads down on. Two more updates for you.

We are fully off WordPress

Every Gondola website is now completely off of WordPress. All of them. Done.

We spent years fighting plugins, updates that break things, security patches, and draconian programming principles. Every layer made sites slower and more fragile.

So we stopped patching and rebuilt from scratch for the modern web. If you're still on Wordpress, understand that it will limit your growth from here on out. 

Now that we can focus on shipping cool NEW stuff, here's our first gift to you...

All Gondola-powered websites are now blazing fast 🔥🔥🔥

Try it out by visiting your own website now and you'll immediately notice how much snappier everything feels. It's incredibly pleasant to use. 

I'll be honest about the caveat: all of the stuff you add on top... videos, booking widgets, chat bots, popups... slows it a bit, but we're working on making those faster, too. 

Our foundation is now the fastest in the industry.

Why should you care? Speed isn't a vanity metric.

• Increased conversions: A 0.1 second speed improvement lifted travel website conversions by 10.1% (source)
• Lower bounce rates: When a page takes 3 seconds to load instead of 1 second, 32% more visitors leave (source)
• Higher rankings: Google uses page speed as a ranking factor in search results (source)

Join us for our AI Visibility webinar September 1st

The report told you what's happening in the market.

On Tuesday, September 1 we're doing the follow up webinar on what to do about it: how to stay visible in AI results, keep your SEO growing, and build a healthier direct booking business.

Save your seat →

The changelog is live

We ship constantly, and most of it quietly. You shouldn't have to email me to find out what changed.

So the changelog is now public on the website: gondola.travel/changelog

Bookmark it. If you ever want to know what we shipped for you recently, the highlights are there.

Thanks for sticking with us through all this.

— Vitaliy