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Case study: Northern Escape Heli Skiing

Northern Escape Heli Skiing: mobile PageSpeed from 19 to 96

In June 2021 the home page scored 19 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 9.1 s.

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In short

Northern Escape Heli Skiing is a heli-skiing operator. In June 2021 Codiffy optimized the speed of neheliskiing.com: Google PageSpeed went from 19 to 96 on mobile and from 65 to 100 on desktop and GTmetrix from D (57%) to A (97%).

  • ClientNorthern Escape Heli Skiing
  • IndustryHeli-skiing
  • PlatformWordPress
  • Tested withGoogle PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom
  • ServicesPerformance optimization
  • WhenJune 2021

The short version

Challenge
In June 2021 the home page scored 19 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 9.1 s.
Approach
With the site on a new server and Cloudflare removed, we installed and configured NitroPack, switched off WP Rocket and fixed a white first paint on the mobile slider.
Result
Afterwards it scored 96 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (97%) and a fully loaded time of 1.5 s.

19 → 96PageSpeed mobile score. Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, home page, before and after the work, June 2021

About Northern Escape Heli Skiing

Northern Escape Heli Skiing is a heli-skiing operator. We optimized the speed of neheliskiing.com in June 2021.

The problem

In June 2021 the home page scored 19 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 9.1 s.

What we did

With the site on a new server and Cloudflare removed, we installed and configured NitroPack, switched off WP Rocket and fixed a white first paint on the mobile slider.

The result

Afterwards it scored 96 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (97%) and a fully loaded time of 1.5 s.

Test Before After
Google PageSpeed, mobile 19 96
Google PageSpeed, desktop 65 100
GTmetrix grade (performance) D (57%) A (97%)
GTmetrix fully loaded time 9.1 s 1.5 s
Pingdom load time 5.93 s 272 ms
Pingdom page size 5.5 MB 2.1 MB

Before and after

Google PageSpeed Insights results for neheliskiing.com from June 2021, before the speed work on the left and after it on the right
Google PageSpeed Insights, before and after.
GTmetrix results for neheliskiing.com from June 2021, before the speed work on the left and after it on the right
GTmetrix, before and after.

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Questions about this project.

How much faster did neheliskiing.com get?

Google PageSpeed went from 19 to 96 on mobile and from 65 to 100 on desktop, and GTmetrix from D (57%) to A (97%), with the fully loaded time down from 9.1 s to 1.5 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up neheliskiing.com?

With the site on a new server and Cloudflare removed, we installed and configured NitroPack, switched off WP Rocket and fixed a white first paint on the mobile slider.

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