clydewindows.com today
clydewindows.com ↗- Main content visible
- 8.5 s
- First thing on screen
- 2.0 s
- Page visibly complete
- 5.0 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 710 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
Overall improvement moving to Astro on Cloudflare
On a phone+16%Google Lighthouse average (out of 100): WordPress 86.5 → Astro on Cloudflare 100.0Main content appears 88% faster
On a desktop+8%Google Lighthouse average (out of 100): WordPress 92.8 → Astro on Cloudflare 100.0Main content appears 40% faster
Overall score = the average of the four Lighthouse scores (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO), each the middle result of 5 runs.
Astro results tomorrow
this demo ↗- Main content visible
- 1.0 s
- First thing on screen
- 1.0 s
- Page visibly complete
- 1.0 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 0 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
clydewindows.com today
clydewindows.com ↗- Main content visible
- 500 ms
- First thing on screen
- 500 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 1.1 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 500 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
Astro results tomorrow
this demo ↗- Main content visible
- 300 ms
- First thing on screen
- 300 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 300 ms
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 0 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
What we would build for Clyde Windows & Construction
Three layers, each doing one job
WordPress does everything in one place: 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 hack on the server. No login page, database or plugins sit behind the Clyde Windows & Construction 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 is free.
- 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 September 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; the middle result (median) is shown. Ranges: mobile 51–88 on WordPress, 100–100 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). The WordPress site was measured at 09:49 and the Astro version at 10:45 UK time on 20 October 2026, not alternated.
- Visitor: First visit, no cookie consent given, no scrolling or clicking during the test (the same for both sites).
- Built natively in Astro: one component per page section, styles and scripts produced by Astro, every image resized and converted to WebP by Astro's image tool. No WordPress, PHP, database, Bricks page builder or plugin code.
- Same content and order: every heading, menu item, service, review, project title, form field and footer line is taken from the live homepage (read on 20 October 2026), with the same navy and off-white brand colours and the same system font.
- This is a lite build with placeholder images: the live site's image files sit behind a Cloudflare bot check that blocked our build tools, so every photo, logo and badge on the Astro homepage is a plain placeholder of the same size carrying the live page's own image description. Real images make a page heavier, so the Astro scores here will be measured again once the real images are added.
- Tracking, chat and form scripts not loaded: Google Tag Manager, the Meta (Facebook) pixel, the Complianz cookie manager and the Fluent Forms conversational and finance forms are left out, so demo visits never reach Clyde Windows' analytics or inbox. The contact form is shown but does not send.
- Links are inert: the demo is the homepage only.
- Look-alike check: Rebuilt from the live page's text, read through Kitesurf (Sentry's Cloudflare browser) on 20 October 2026, with the same sections, order, headings, text, menus, pop-ups and form fields. The Kitesurf look-alike check passes on title, description, headings, text (96.9% match), link text, image descriptions, menus and contact details. Photos and logos are placeholders in this lite build.
- 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