Case study: Keswick Kids Dental

Keswick Kids Dental: fully loaded time from 11.7 s to 3.9 s

Before the work the home page scored 40% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 11.7 s to load fully.

In short

Keswick Kids Dental is a dental clinic. In December 2019 to January 2020 Codiffy optimized the speed of keswickkidsdental.ca: on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time it went from 40% on the old host to 95% after optimization, and the fully loaded time from 11.7 s to 3.9 s.

  • ClientKeswick Kids Dental
  • IndustryDental clinic
  • PlatformWordPress
  • Tested withGTmetrix
  • ServicesPerformance optimization
  • WhenDecember 2019 to January 2020

The short version

Challenge
Before the work the home page scored 40% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 11.7 s to load fully.
Approach
We optimized the site by hand, without a speed service: scripts minified and deferred, images scaled and compressed, caching, and fewer requests.
Result
It scored 57% after the hosting move, and 95% after optimization; the fully loaded time went to 3.9 s.

11.7 s → 3.9 sFully loaded time. GTmetrix, home page, before and after the work, December 2019 to January 2020

About Keswick Kids Dental

Keswick Kids Dental is a dental clinic. We optimized the speed of keswickkidsdental.ca in December 2019 to January 2020.

The problem

Before the work the home page scored 40% on the old host on the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time and took 11.7 s to load fully.

What we did

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

The result

It scored 57% after the hosting move, and 95% after optimization; the fully loaded time went to 3.9 s.

Test Before After
GTmetrix PageSpeed score (the GTmetrix scale used until late 2020) 40% on the old host, 57% after the hosting move 95% after optimization
GTmetrix fully loaded time 11.7 s 3.9 s
Page size 4.28 MB 1.99 MB

Before and after

BeforeGTmetrix report test of keswickkidsdental.ca before the speed work, December 2019 to January 2020
AfterGTmetrix report test of keswickkidsdental.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 keswickkidsdental.ca get?

On the GTmetrix PageSpeed scale of the time it went from 40% on the old host to 95% after optimization, and the fully loaded time from 11.7 s to 3.9 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up keswickkidsdental.ca?

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

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