
Client: Dumas Bay Centre
Scope of Work
Accessibility Improvements
Copyediting and content migration
Front-End web development
Performance optimization
Security hardening
Search engine optimization
Visual redesign
Team: Cipalla Communications, Scott Marlow, Joan van den Berg
Dumas Bay Centre is a unique event & retreat venue owned by the City of Federal Way.
Before the website redesign, center staff were limited to editing existing website content using Cushy CMS, a WYSIWYG HTML editing tool. To add new content, city IT staff needed to upload files to the web host.
The website was migrated to a new host and WordPress was configured to allow full rich-content editing. The new mobile-friendly site features a more modern look, with image galleries, oEmbed video support, site search, SSL protection, and feedback and rental inquiry forms. All implemented with accessibility in mind.
Performance Metrics
| Performance |
WordPress Site |
Benchmark |
| Google Mobile Speed: |
68 |
|
| Google Desktop Speed |
81 |
|
| Pingdom |
87 |
faster than 87% of tested sites |
| WebPageTest Speed Index |
1,017 |
median = ~4,493
top 10% = <1,388 |
| YSlow |
81 |
average score = 70 |
| Web Page Size |
526 Kb |
In 2017, average page size = ~2.4 Mb
median page size = ~1.9 Mb |
| Web Server Requests |
27 |
< 40 – 60 recommended |
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