Off WordPress in nineteen days, 6× faster
Kiln & Bean
Fourteen plugins, a 4.1 second load and a compromised admin. Migrated in nineteen days with rankings intact.
- 4.1s → 0.68smobile load time
- +31%organic traffic
- 19 daysstart to switchover
The challenge
Kiln & Bean's WordPress site had fourteen plugins, three of them unmaintained, and had been compromised once through an outdated contact form. Mobile load time was 4.1 seconds. The theme could not be updated without breaking the shop layout.
What we built
Every post, page, product and image migrated to an Angular front end with server-side rendering, backed by a Laravel admin built around their actual content: roasts, origins, brew guides and subscriptions.
A 301 map covered all 214 indexed URLs, applied before the DNS switch.
The outcome
Mobile load time dropped to 0.68 seconds. Organic traffic rose 31% in the following quarter with no content changes. There is nothing left to patch.
They quoted twenty-one days and delivered in nineteen. The site went from four seconds to under a second and our rankings went up, not down. I had been told that was impossible.