WordPress. The Most Respected Content Management System in the World.

Did you know WordPress powers 39.5% of all websites (up from powering 35% of sites in 2020)?

CMS	Market Share (2021)
WordPress	65%
Shopify	6.5%
Wix	3.4%
SquareSpace	3.0%
Joomla	2.5%
Drupal	1.9%

Lytle Enterprises contacted our team in October 2021 with accessibility, SEO and usability concerns for their aging website. Our goals included:

1. To refresh and modernize the website based on the organization’s existing brand identity;
2. To improve ease of use – including content management, information architecture, readability, and site maintenance;
3. To improve conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) level AA – including keyboard-navigable navigation, skip-to-content links, semantic HTML, site search; and high color contrast [> 4.5:1 and > 3.5:1 for large text];
4. To improve site performance and security;
5. To improve search engine visibility and optimization.

The final benchmark results were impressive …

Performance Metric	Old website (November 2021)	New Website (April 2022)
Google Lighthouse: Accessibility	96/100	100/100
Google Lighthouse: Best Practices	67/100	100/100
Google Lighthouse: Mobile Speed	59/100	86/100
Google Lighthouse: Desktop Speed	71/100	98/100
Google Lighthouse: Search Engine Optimization	71/100	93/100
WebPageTest Speed Index	5.845	2.116
Total Homepage File Size	377 Kb (201 Kb Images + 172 Kb Scripts + 13 Kb CSS + 40 Kb Fonts + 19 Kb HTML)	383 Kb (231 Kb Images + 4 Kb Scripts + 41 Kb CSS + 107 Kb Fonts + 8 Kb HTML)
Total Web Server Requests	25 (3 Images +13 Scripts + 5 CSS + 2 Font + 5 HTML)	20 (6 Images + 2 Scripts + 8 CSS + 3 Fonts + 1 HTML)
Total Homepage Load Time	~5.8 seconds	~2.1 seconds

Web Design + Development Team

Visual Design: Erik Fadiman
WordPress Theme Development: Scott Marlow