Micropix.co.uk
This screenshot taken on October 24th 2025 from webpagetest.org shows that visitors to micropix.co.uk would wait 3.925 seconds to download 1MB of data.
Since migrating the same content on to our platform on 31st October, the same reprot for the same location shows a waiting time of 1.376 seconds to downoad 81KB of data. The new platform uses two different Google fonts but since these are self-hosted, visitors' details are not exposed to Google.
Real user metrics are captured by a lightweight javacript module which uploads the data to a database. By logging in to the live site, the site owner can view performance details of each page and session including the order in which individual pages in a session were viewed and for how long. In this way, use of Google tag manager and exposure of visitors' privacy is also avoided.
By minimising the use of javascript exclusively to real user monitoring, by optimising fonts to include only the distinct set of characters used in the content, and by ensuring downoaded images are sized according to each visitor's device dimensions and capabilities, the overall page weight is comfortably under 100KB.
Although you can't see from these screenshots, the page includes 7 high quality images. The wordpress version of the site was using thumbnail images that appeared blurry because the owner considered the cost of the necessary wordpress plugin prohibitive.
This is a good example where a much improved user experience (speed of download, image quality, use of attractive fonts, non-discoluser of visitors' privacy) is made possible at a fracion of the cost. Indeed, this website owner's costs have fallen from about £1000 a year for various wordpress plugs (e.g. Elementor) to £0/year because the platform still currently runs on "always free" offerings.
It's too early to tell how this website will gain in Google's search index rankings. However, it is certain that whatever SEO credit the website had will only improve as Google takes into consideration Core Web Vital measurements gathered over the coming months.
Spiritresilience.com
This was a wordpress site costing its owner about £2000/year mainly in hosting and agency fees, plus SEO services (at £60/month!). Although in operation for about 3 years it was only attracting at most 40 visitors/month and was declining.
After migrating the site to the new platform in October 2025, again with exactly the same content, it's SEO ranking reamined static for a few months after which first-time visitor numbers started climbing rapidly from 40 visits/month to about 900 visits/month by January 2025.
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