Custom theme case study
In the comparison table below, you can observe each theme element as Google looks at it, and read about what our web development experts have done to optimize it and how our optimizations contributed to the site's overall score and technical SEO. The old site was built using a demo of a popular commercial theme from ThemeForest.
*This client's old and new sites were cloned for this case study presentation, and the text was replaced to protect the client's identity.
Old Website |
New Website |
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PageSpeed Insights |
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| Overall Score Mobile / Desktop | |
| 28 / 73 | 100 / 100 |
| Accessibility / Best Practices / SEO | |
| Not Optimal | Fully Optimized |
| Core Web Vitals | |
| Not Optimal | Fully Optimized |
Let's talk numbersAccording to gtmetrix.com, lower is better |
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| Fully Loaded Time | |
| 4.5 sec. | 0.96 sec. |
| Total Page Requests | |
| 106 | 15 |
| HTML Page Size | |
| 158 KB | 10.3 KB |
| Total CSS | |
| 73.7 KB | 1.66 KB |
| Total JS | |
| 579 KB | 1.68 KB |
UX Improvements |
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✓ Mobile-First Design. ✓ Built-in Critical-CSS. ✓ Component-based structure. ✓ Custom, optimized Page Builder. ✓ Improved structure and accents following Brand colors. ✓ Consistent spacing. ✓ Sticky header. ✓ Discreet, pure CSS animations. ✓ Pure CSS Parallax elements. ✓ On-demand interactive elements: Sliders, Carousels, Lightboxes ✓ Automatic Images optimization, WEBP conversion |
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Mobile UX Improvements |
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✓ Improved mobile structure and design. ✓ Consistent spacing. ✓ Sticky header. ✓ Animations enabled on mobile, including parallax elements. |
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We eliminate unnecessary code and files and equip you with the tools to run lean in the future by eliminating plugins, and manually writing the code for the things you need.