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Case study: Northern Escape Heli Skiing

Northern Escape summer lodge site: mobile PageSpeed from 38 to 96

In May 2022 the home page scored 38 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (65%) and a fully loaded time of 8.8 s.

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In short

Northern Escape Heli Skiing is the summer lodge site of Northern Escape Heli Skiing. In May 2022 Codiffy optimized the speed of summer.neheliskiing.com: Google PageSpeed went from 38 to 96 on mobile and from 65 to 100 on desktop and GTmetrix from D (65%) to A (100%).

  • ClientNorthern Escape Heli Skiing
  • IndustryHeli-skiing (summer lodge)
  • PlatformWordPress
  • Tested withGoogle PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom
  • ServicesPerformance optimization
  • WhenMay 2022

The short version

Challenge
In May 2022 the home page scored 38 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (65%) and a fully loaded time of 8.8 s.
Approach
We installed and configured NitroPack on the summer site. No plugins needed to be switched off.
Result
Afterwards it scored 96 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (100%) and a fully loaded time of 2.4 s. Nine months later the mobile score was still 94.

38 → 96PageSpeed mobile score. Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, home page, before and after the work, May 2022

About Northern Escape Heli Skiing

Northern Escape Heli Skiing is the summer lodge site of Northern Escape Heli Skiing. We optimized the speed of summer.neheliskiing.com in May 2022.

The problem

In May 2022 the home page scored 38 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 65 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (65%) and a fully loaded time of 8.8 s.

What we did

We installed and configured NitroPack on the summer site. No plugins needed to be switched off.

The result

Afterwards it scored 96 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (100%) and a fully loaded time of 2.4 s. Nine months later the mobile score was still 94.

Test Before After
Google PageSpeed, mobile 38 96
Google PageSpeed, desktop 65 100
GTmetrix grade (performance) D (65%) A (100%)
GTmetrix fully loaded time 8.8 s 2.4 s
Pingdom page size 38.5 MB 3.2 MB
Pingdom requests 164 62

Before and after

BeforeGoogle PageSpeed Insights mobile test of summer.neheliskiing.com before the speed work, May 2022
AfterGoogle PageSpeed Insights mobile test of summer.neheliskiing.com after the speed work, May 2022
Google PageSpeed Insights mobile, before and after. The page preview in the after test is blank because the main image now loads on the first interaction.
BeforeGTmetrix test of summer.neheliskiing.com before the speed work, May 2022
AfterGTmetrix test of summer.neheliskiing.com after the speed work, May 2022
GTmetrix, before and after.

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Questions about this project.

How much faster did summer.neheliskiing.com get?

Google PageSpeed went from 38 to 96 on mobile and from 65 to 100 on desktop, and GTmetrix from D (65%) to A (100%), with the fully loaded time down from 8.8 s to 2.4 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up summer.neheliskiing.com?

We installed and configured NitroPack on the summer site. No plugins needed to be switched off.

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