Case study: Country Dental

Country Dental: fully loaded time from 5.3 s to 1.7 s

Before the work the home page scored 61% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 5.3 s to load fully.

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In short

Country Dental is a dental group. In December 2019 to January 2020 Codiffy optimized the speed of countrydental.ca: on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time it went from 61% on the old host to 94% after optimization, and the fully loaded time from 5.3 s to 1.7 s.

ClientCountry Dental
IndustryDental group
PlatformWordPress
Tested withGTmetrix
ServicesPerformance optimization
WhenDecember 2019 to January 2020

The short version

Challenge: Before the work the home page scored 61% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 5.3 s to load fully.
Approach: We optimized the site by hand, without a speed service: scripts minified and deferred, images scaled, caching, and fewer requests.
Result: It scored 87% after the hosting move, and 94% after optimization; the fully loaded time went to 1.7 s.

5.3 s → 1.7 sFully loaded time. GTmetrix, home page, before and after the work, December 2019 to January 2020

About Country Dental

Country Dental is a dental group. We optimized the speed of countrydental.ca in December 2019 to January 2020.

The problem

Before the work the home page scored 61% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 5.3 s to load fully.

What we did

We optimized the site by hand, without a speed service: scripts minified and deferred, images scaled, caching, and fewer requests.

The result

It scored 87% after the hosting move, and 94% after optimization; the fully loaded time went to 1.7 s.

Test	Before	After
GTmetrix PageSpeed score (the GTmetrix scale used until late 2020)	61% on the old host, 87% after the hosting move	94% after optimization
GTmetrix fully loaded time	5.3 s	1.7 s
Requests	52	30

Before and after

GTmetrix report test of countrydental.ca before the speed work, December 2019 to January 2020 — GTmetrix report, before and after.

GTmetrix report test of countrydental.ca after the speed work, December 2019 to January 2020 — GTmetrix report, before and after.

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Questions about this project.

How much faster did countrydental.ca get?

On the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time it went from 61% on the old host to 94% after optimization, and the fully loaded time from 5.3 s to 1.7 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up countrydental.ca?

We optimized the site by hand, without a speed service: scripts minified and deferred, images scaled, caching, and fewer requests.

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