We have been really excited about launching CloudCanvas our WordPress website platform that allows people to quickly and easily launch a WordPress website without all the hassle stress and costs that usually come with WordPress.

One of the areas we focused on when developing CloudCanvas was speed, from the choice of servers to the way we set things up speed was always on the forefront of our minds. We know finding a reliable host that is also fast is one of the biggest problems people find when starting out with

WordPress, so we built a solid infrastructure backed with AWS and Cloudflare and CloudFront to deliver content around the World at amazing speeds with no optimisation required.

Built into the heart of CloudCanvas are some pretty neat plugins that help speed things up further. From WP Smush pro to Hummingbird and WP Super Cache, you don’t have to worry about caching and image optimisation because we take care of it all for you.

Our Speed Tests

So what results did we get when we redesigned and moved a site for Raisemore to CloudCanvas? Raisemore is a website for a company in Herefordshire that help charities raise more funding, Raisemore wanted to move a number of their sites to CloudCanvas after realising the savings and improvements in running sites CloudCanvas provided.

As part of our promotion in Herefordshire we moved Raisemore over to the CloudCanvas platform at a discount cost, the original Raismore site was a typical site that hadn’t had a lot in the way of optimisation and was actually painfully slow. We wanted to see what improvements could be made by just moving to CloudCanvas. We left all caching and minification as default to give a true reflection of what is possible.

So we tested the site with Google Pagespeed and Pingdom Speed Test to see what we could be achieved. Below are our results.

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So what about the design?

When we moved Raisemore over to CloudCanvas we redesigned the site to better reflect what they do and to deliver their message in a clear manner. Below is a before and after of the Raisemore website.

You can also checkout the Raisemore site yourself at www.raisemore.co.uk

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After