Our Case Studies
Our Case Studies
Doctor of Credit is an established website with high traffic and a large community that using the native WordPress comments system.
In particular, the site had a page that displayed the 100 most recent comments upon loading. As a result, the page took several seconds to load for every user. We then built a custom solution to load only 25 comments initially, with the rest loading upon clicking a button.
Despite being hosted on WP Engine (with all its quirks), we managed to improve all Core Web Vitals, especially the CLS!
Aenigma is one of our favourite clients, with a beautifully written website full of anecdotes and stories about Hollywood stars, from actors to make-up artists.
It was a real pleasure for us to bring the entire site up to speed. Removing unnecessary and overlapping plugins, disabling SiteGround’s CDN and replacing it with a better alternative, and making sure all posts were properly cached are just a few examples of the work we did to achieve these outstanding results.
Kyle Carnes’ website is all about images, which is why we needed to give them special attention. The homepage was particularly important, as it’s the main entry point for most visitors and featured a slider right at the top. And as we all know, sliders can be tricky to optimize.
Our solution was to replace the existing slider, originally built with Slider Revolution, with a new one created using MetaSlider, while also making sure that non-visible images were lazy-loaded. Combined with serving all images through a CDN (to compensate for InMotion’s poor performance) and our full Complete Speed Optimization, we achieved green scores!
It was awesome to work with a news site from Suriname! They had been struggling for a while with a mediocre LCP and extremely high CLS.
We not only managed to drastically improve their Core Web Vitals (they now pass all of them—even on ad-heavy pages), but we also helped the client save money by reorganizing their optimization plugin setup, allowing them to cancel a monthly subscription.
One of the things we love most about our work is meeting kind and passionate people—like G from Quotidiano Motori. He and his team do amazing car reviews, but their website needed some care, cleaning, and reorganization.
The improvement was definitely noticeable, although we almost hit a wall when it came to image optimization. Both the server environment and the hosting provider had issues that prevented the delivery of next-gen image formats. So, we decided to offload image delivery to an external CDN—and from that point on, everything ran smoothly.
The owner of I’d Rather Be A Chef reached out to us feeling overwhelmed by all the speed optimization advice. Despite using a solid caching plugin and being on Cloudflare, they felt like the site was going backwards in terms of performance.
Even though the site was built with Elementor, we replaced several plugins, tested various optimization strategies, and even replaced the cache plugin and configuration for an even better one. After a lot of effort, we achieved a dramatic improvement in performance—and the site passed all Core Web Vitals.
Even ourselves were surprised with this case. The client had been running his beautifully designed website with HostGator and a rather bloated theme.
Together, we decided to start migrating his website to a new server. After weighing up a managed WordPress solution or a self-managed server from Hetzner, we opted for the latter. And then we went ahead with a Completed Speed Optimization to fine-tune everything.
The results speak for themselves: we managed to get a mediocre performing website to a perfect score in PageSpeed Insights. And the site actually flies!
The client purchased a Website Speed-Up Audit because he was facing some issues with his header, which kept vanishing until he cleared the Autoptimize cache. Additionally, he felt that the loading speed had dropped over the years.
After receiving the audit reports, he asked us to implement the recommendations for him. We successfully improved his GTmetrix score from an F to an A, and all his Core Web Vitals passed. Not only that, but after numerous attempts and troubleshooting, the issue with the header disappeared!
“Two Bad Tourists” is a website with significant traffic; unfortunately, it was hosted on Bluehost. Despite this considerable challenge, we successfully reduced the Core Web Vitals almost by half. Not only that, on certain pages, we managed to increase the GTmetrix score from a C/D to an A. Achieving such improvements is particularly challenging in low-resource hosting providers, such as Bluehost.
“A Lily Love Affair” was a very satisfying case study. The client also started with a Website Speed-Up Audit, and she trusted us to implement all the changes. She was hosted on Hostgator, which almost always makes things a lot more difficult. The result in GTmetrix went from a D to an A—incredible!
The owner runs a family-owned business, and they were struggling with page loading speed. Sometimes the experience was really good and satisfying, but other times it was very slow.
After purchasing a Website Speed-Up Audit, he decided to leave the hard work to us. Despite the website using a poorly optimized theme, we managed to significantly improve the Core Web Vitals, and this can be easily seen through the CrUX data, what real users experience.
Technically, the scores on PageSpeed Insights could be even better, but at the expense of some functionality loss. In this case, we decided to leave it as is.
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