How We Built a 3x Faster Website for a Daytona Beach Client

Case Study · 4 min read · March 16, 2026

See exactly how we took a struggling local business website and delivered 3x speed improvements with measurable traffic increases.

Overview

Challenge: A Daytona Beach restaurant owner was losing customers before they even visited. Their website took 9 seconds to load on mobile. The Numbers Before: - Page Load Time: 9.2 seconds - Mobile Bounce Rate: 78% - Google Ranking: Page 4 for local terms - Monthly Leads: 12 What We Did: Week 1: Analysis & Discovery - Identified 23 performance issues - Mapped user journey bottlenecks - Created performance roadmap Week 2: Technical Fixes - Image compression (saved 2.1MB) - Code splitting implementation - Server-side rendering setup - CDN configuration - Caching strategy Week 3: Content Opt…

Topics: Case Study, Website Speed, Daytona Beach, Performance

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