Overview
Fundeser is a Nicaraguan microfinance institution that provides loans to micro and small businesses, with a presence in 14 of the country's 17 departments and more than half of its portfolio in rural areas. Its website ran on a 2018 WordPress install that was never updated: it loaded slowly, showed a loading screen, its styles kept breaking, and publishing news was a hassle. On top of that, technical errors kept Google from indexing all of its pages.
Through TecnoTool, the company I work for, I led the migration alongside a backend developer. I chose Astro and Strapi to keep JavaScript and CSS to a minimum, partially redesigned the pages on a stable design system while keeping the original identity, and built the CMS connection and its custom blocks. In 8 weeks the site went to a 1.1 s load time, a 96 Lighthouse performance score, every page indexed, and about 400 users a month.
The Problem
Slow-loading website
Outdated WordPress install
Constantly breaking styles
Inconsistent pages
News hard to publish
Incomplete indexing
The Solution
Migration to Astro and Strapi
A stable site on a maintained foundation
Minimal JavaScript
Loads in 1.1 s, no loading screen
Consistent design system
Coherent pages that don't break
CMS blog with technical SEO
News that's easy to publish and gets indexed
Design
I kept the original design and redesigned only the pages that needed it, on a design system with fixed colors, margins, and spacing that keeps everything consistent on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Technologies Used
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SEO
Lighthouse scores, with a 1.1 s load time and about 400 monthly active users.