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Case Study

WOMANSWORK

How CueForGood helped WomansWork speed up their Magento 2 store

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Our team assisted this women-owned family business reduce their first load time by 65.87% and repeat view time by 67.65%.
Womanswork
  • Average first load speed
    increased by 65.87%
  • Average repeat view speed
    increased by 67.65%

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About the
client

WomansWork has been selling high quality gardening related accessories - gloves, tools, skin care etc., since 1986. Their love for gardening, ever available customer support and high standard of their products got them covered by magazines like Vogue, Better Homes, The O List (Oprah) and many more.

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    Client's
    Requirement

    Since upgrading to Magento 2, a slow site speed was a pressing issue for WomansWork. The long loading times were a big deterrent to a crisp and seamless user experience. With an optimally performing and a quicker website, the client aimed at leveraging the buzz they were successfully able to create with their products and novel ideas like their 'Story Bank'.

    Results

    Fixes/ recommendations made by CueForGood resulted in decreasing the pagespeed across the website, which has lead to considerable improvement to the user experience.

    Home Page

    womanswork.com

    7th june 2018 8th jan 2019
    8.734s First ViewWomanswork2.993s First View
    9.199s Repeat View2.395s Repeat View
    Decreased load time by
     
    65.73% First View 73.96% Repeat View

    Category Page

    Womens Gloves

    7th june 2018 8th jan 2019
    9.624s First ViewWomanswork3.343s First View
    8.930s Repeat View2.755s Repeat View
    Decreased load time by
     
    65.26% First View 69.14% Repeat View

    Product Page

    Purple Floral Arm Saver Gloves

    7th june 2018 8th jan 2019
    14.743s First ViewWomanswork4.920s First View
    9.838s Repeat View3.966s Repeat View
    Decreased load time by
     
    66.62% First View 59.68% Repeat View
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    Our Approach

    As is the standard operating procedure at CueForGood, we broke down the requirement into smaller sub tasks - our top priority being improving the speed and performance of the website.


    The following are some of the major changes made or recommended by CueForGood in order to make a positive impact on the speed and performance of WomansWork.com:

    • CSS/ JS Minification (Stopped JS Bundling).
    • Implemented Server Cache - Redis + Memcache.
    • Fixed Full Page Cache (FPC) issue which ensured its proper functioning.
    • Switched on the production mode.

    On analysing the health of the website through a code audit and using diagnostic tools such as Pingdom, GTmetrix and Webpage speed test, we could identify several prominent deviations from the recommended Magento best practices. We identified improvements which, if implemented correctly, could have lead to a notable change in the site speed and performance.

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    Other important recommendations and implementations made by CueForGood

    • Womanswork

      Setting up a proper development environment including separate development and staging servers along with a versioning system. This meant all the code was first to be implemented on a staging server and tested. Only after approval from the QA and the client the code was pushed live.

    • Womanswork

      Upgrading Magento to the latest 2.2.5 version. There was a big gap between the existing 2.1.2 version and the upgraded 2.2.5 version. The upgrade hence helped us to introduce the latest (stabler) Magento optimization standards to the website.

    • Womanswork

      Upgrading server to ensure enough space for implementing caching modules.

    • Womanswork

      Upgrading PHP to the latest stable versions.

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