The latest website launch for Shoreline attorney Ginger Boyle, who specializes in collaborative divorce and divorce mediation.
This project involved rebuilding a non-mobile friendly GoDaddy Site Builder website into a more accessible, mobile friendly WordPress site. Web server requests – the primary factor in slow page load speeds – were reduced 20% from 42 to 34, and overall homepage size was reduced 45% from 1.3 Mb to 715 Kb. Google Lighthouse mobile speed benchmarks improved from 24 to 97/100.
Performance Analysis
| Performance Metric | old GoDaddy website |
New WordPress Website |
| Google Lighthouse: Accessibility | 48/100 | 97/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Best Practices | 67/100 | 100/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Mobile Speed | 24/100 | 97/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Desktop Speed | 96/100 | 89/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Search Engine Optimization | 91/100 | 91/100 |
| WebPageTest Speed Index | 1.905 | 2.420 |
| Total Homepage File Size | 1.302 Mb (144 Kb Images + 80 Kb Scripts + 20 Kb CSS + 1 Mb Fonts + 9 Kb HTML) | 715 Kb (125 Kb Images + 295 Kb Scripts + 93 Kb CSS + Kb Fonts + Kb HTML) |
| Total Web Server Requests | 42 (4 Images + 10 Scripts + 2 CSS + 24 Fonts + 2 HTML) | 34 (6 Images +11 Scripts + 12 CSS + 3 Other + 2 HTML) |
| Estimated Mobile Homepage Load Time | ~2 seconds | ~2.4 seconds |
WebPage Test Speed Index: median = ~3.591; top 10% = <1.388
In 2022, the average page size = ~2.4 Mb and median page size = ~2.1 Mb.
Database-driven websites, like WordPress, are more performance optimized when server requests are < 40 – 60.
Branding & Visual Design: Heidi Grace
Portraiture: Ingrid Page-Sheldon
Videography: The Crouch Group
WordPress Theme Development: Scott Marlow
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