A new WordPress-powered website for Spokane Area Retired Educator’s Association (SAREA), a member organization of Washington State School Retirees Association.
This Spokane nonprofit association lost access to their domain registrar and host, after a key stakeholder passed away. After a new domain name was secured, site content was manually migrated into a WordPress CMS for more intuitive content editing. The new site incorporates an online application for scholarships and mini-grants awarded each fall.
Scope of Work
- Content Migration
- Performance Optimization
- Search Engine Optimization
- Security Hardening
- Visual Layout & Design
- WordPress Theme Development
- WordPress Training & Consulting
Performance
Page load speed is excellent with overall page size, 273 Kb, 88% below the median homepage size. Accessibility benchmarks are also superb.
| Performance Metric | New WordPress Website |
| Google Lighthouse: Accessibility | 100/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Best Practices | 100/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Mobile Speed | 70/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Desktop Speed | 91/100 |
| Google Lighthouse: Search Engine Optimization | 93/100 |
| WebPageTest Speed Index | 1.795 |
| Total Homepage File Size | 273 Kb (218 Kb Images + 9 Kb Scripts + 45Kb CSS + 8Kb HTML) |
| Total Web Server Requests | 18 (5 Images + 4 Scripts + 8 CSS + 1 HTML) |
| Estimated Mobile Homepage Load Time | ~1.8 seconds |
WebPageTest 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.
Site Credits
WordPress Design + Development: Scott Marlow
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