Case study
Digitally Minded

Re-launching Digitally Minded

In July 2026 we migrated our own website from Wix Studio to a fully static build with a headless CMS - 48 pages moved in 7 days, every URL preserved, verified live on cutover day.

Our own website - PPC consultancy · Jul 20, 2026

01 / The numbers

a

Lighthouse performance - desktop

100

b

Lighthouse performance - mobile

97

c

Largest contentful paint - desktop

0.7s

d

Cumulative layout shift

0

e

URLs preserved or redirected in one hop

100%

f

Days from first commit to cutover

7

02 / The work

Why we relaunched.

To lead by example. We tell clients that page speed, privacy, accessibility and clean measurement matter - so our own website should prove it. There are alternatives to page builders such as Wix and WordPress, and this website is what it looks like.

What we built.

  • No page builder. A fully static website built on the Astro framework. Every page is pre-built HTML served from a global edge network. No cold starts, nothing to hack.
  • Zero webfonts. Your own system font renders instantly on every device. No font payload.
  • A headless CMS. Posts, services and glossary terms edited in a hosted studio and published in minutes.
  • Accessible by design. WCAG AA contrast, keyboard navigation, reduced-motion support.
  • Privacy first. Cookieless, EU-hosted analytics - no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to. Alternative to GA4 implemented.
  • Spam-protected forms. Cloudflare Turnstile verification with no puzzles or annoying captcha for real visitors.

The migration outcome.

48 pages, 15 blog posts and 6 service pages moved. 100% of URLs preserved or redirected in one hop. All 27 images moved off Wix's CDN and self-hosted. Search Console verification carried through the DNS move unbroken. Every redirect, sitemap and robots txt rule was verified live before we called the cutover done.

The results, measured.

  • Google Lighthouse, desktop: 100 performance · 100 accessibility · 100 best practices · 100 SEO
  • Mobile: 97 performance on throttled 4G
  • Largest contentful paint: 0.7s desktop, 2.3s mobile
  • Total blocking time: 0ms. Layout shift: 0.
  • Agentic browsing checks: 2/2 - the site reads correctly for AI agents as well as people

Organic search: we'll publish impressions against the pre-migration baseline once Search Console has 4-6 weeks of post-cutover data. We don't report numbers before the data exists - on our site or yours.

03 / Proof

Google PageSpeed Insights desktop report for digitallyminded.co, 19 July 2026: 100 performance, 100 accessibility, 100 best practices, 100 SEO
Figure 01 - Desktop report, PageSpeed Insights, 19 July 2026.
Google PageSpeed Insights mobile report for digitallyminded.co, 19 July 2026: 97 performance, 100 accessibility, 100 best practices, 100 SEO
Figure 02 - Mobile report on throttled 4G, PageSpeed Insights, 19 July 2026.
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