WordPressthermaltransfersolutions.com today
thermaltransfersolutions.com ↗
- Main content visible
- 2.1 s
- First thing on screen
- 2.1 s
- Page visibly complete
- 16.2 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 490 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
Your homepage, rebuilt: 12.5× faster on a phone
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On a phone12.5× fasterPage fully drawn on screen in 1.3 seconds, instead of 16.2 seconds today.Google speed score 74 → 98 out of 100
On a computer11.4× fasterPage fully drawn on screen in 0.5 seconds, instead of 5.7 seconds today.Google speed score 72 → 100 out of 100
Same homepage and content, tested side by side with Google PageSpeed Insights on 30 October 2026 (WordPress 11:06–11:37, Astro 14:03–14:06); the middle result of 5 runs each. "Faster" compares the time until the page is fully drawn on screen (Google's Speed Index). The time until the largest item appears is in the full results below. Accessibility, best-practice and search scores are in the full results below. Lab tests, not live visitor data.
WordPress
Rebuilt on Astro, measured today
this demo ↗
- Main content visible
- 2.3 s
- First thing on screen
- 900 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 1.3 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 10 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.01
WordPressthermaltransfersolutions.com today
thermaltransfersolutions.com ↗- Main content visible
- 2.6 s
- First thing on screen
- 500 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 5.7 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 200 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
Rebuilt on Astro, measured today
this demo ↗- Main content visible
- 500 ms
- First thing on screen
- 300 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 500 ms
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 10 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
What we would build for Thermal Transfer Solutions
Three layers, each doing one job
WordPress runs everything from one server: pages, database, plugins, images and security. Here each job goes to a specialist, and the content layer is only added when it earns its place.
- 3. Content, when needed
Content management (CMS), digital assets (DAM) and product information (PIM)- CMS: your team edits the site. An editing workspace built around your content, with live preview: “content teams see changes instantly without waiting for builds or deployments.” Official Astro integration.
- DAM: one home for images and files. Sanity Media Library lets teams “manage assets in a centralized place… then use them across your entire organization.”
- PIM: one source for product data. Holds products, variants and their images together, and can “connect all product information from all your sources like ERPs, MDM, PLMs and unify all information in one place.”
When: Add it only when you need it: CMS if your team edits pages often; DAM for a large image and document library; PIM for a product catalogue.
- 2. WebsiteThe pages your visitors see
- Ready-made pages. Every page is built in advance, so there is nothing to assemble when a visitor arrives. That is where the scores above come from.
- No code visitors don’t need. Astro sends no JavaScript to the browser unless a part of the page needs it.
- Nothing to log in to or patch on the server. No login page, database or plugins sit behind the Thermal Transfer Solutions site.
When: Always. It replaces WordPress for the pages.
- 1. Foundation
CloudflareDNS, global network, security and hosting- Your domain’s address book (DNS). Cloudflare runs the DNS that points your domain and email to the right places. Cloudflare describes its DNS as “consistently measured as one of the fastest” in the world, and it comes with every Cloudflare plan.
- Served close to every visitor. Pages are delivered from a Cloudflare data centre near each visitor, not from one server in one building.
- Firewall and attack protection. A web application firewall filters attacks before they reach the site, and DDoS protection (against floods of fake traffic) is always on.
- Hosting. This demo already runs on Cloudflare Pages: no web server, database or plugins to patch.
When: Always. Every site starts here.
Vendor statements quoted from: Cloudflare DNS · Sanity and Astro · Sanity Media Library · Sanity for PIM (checked 30 October 2026).
How we measured, and exactly what is different on the Astro version
- Tool: Google PageSpeed Insights (Google's hosted Lighthouse). Each site tested 5 times per device on the same day (times shown at the top); the middle result (median) is shown. Ranges: mobile 72–79 on WordPress, 96–99 on Astro.
- Test conditions: PageSpeed Insights defaults: mobile = simulated mid-range phone on slow 4G; desktop = simulated desktop on a fast connection. 5 fresh runs per URL per device (a unique #fragment on each request stops PageSpeed returning a cached result; fragments are never sent to the web server).
- Visitor: First visit, no cookie consent given, no scrolling or clicking during the test (the same for both sites).
- Served by Astro: the homepage is built by Astro into static files on Cloudflare. The original theme styles and scripts are kept so the page looks and behaves the same; a full rebuild into Astro components removes them and is the next step.
- Same content and order: every heading, menu item, button label, picture and footer line is taken from the live homepage (read on 30 October 2026), with the same Lato font and colours. Fonts are served from this site instead of Google Fonts.
- Pictures converted to WebP at the same size; phones get a smaller version of the large slider pictures.
- Accessibility: alt text on logos and flags, names on icon-only buttons and links, pinch-zoom allowed, and the light blue text in the blue services strip is a slightly paler shade so it passes Google's colour-contrast check.
- Third-party tags wait, then are left out: on the live page Google Analytics (MonsterInsights), LinkedIn Insight and Google reCAPTCHA all load before anyone interacts. On Astro, reCAPTCHA loads on the visitor's first scroll, tap or key press; Google Analytics and LinkedIn are not loaded at all, so demo visits never reach Thermal Transfer Solutions' analytics.
- Loading order: the theme's scripts run after the page is drawn (same order as the live page), the first slider slide is shown straight away instead of fading in once the slider script has loaded and stays for 10 seconds before the first change (5 seconds after that, as live), and the styles the first screen needs are built into the page.
- One fix to the theme's own script: the live homepage logs a browser error because a product-table filter runs on a page with no product table; the demo checks for the table first. The script is also minified, with a source map.
- Links go to the live site: the demo is the homepage only.
- Look-alike check: passed on 30 October 2026: page height, text, images and links match the live homepage at 390, 768 and 1440 pixels wide (demo bar excluded), with no sideways scrolling and no browser errors.
- What this does not show: these are lab tests, not measurements of real visitors, search rankings or sales.
Raw results: mobile WordPress: 1 2 3 4 5 · mobile Astro: 1 2 3 4 5 · desktop WordPress: 1 2 3 4 5 · desktop Astro: 1 2 3 4 5 · Re-run yourself: WordPress site · Astro version