The Crazy Travel
A twelve-year, three-language travel blog, moved off an ageing WordPress install to a custom Next.js build — without losing a single permalink or ranking, and roughly 1.5× faster across the board.
Before · WordPressAfter · Next.js
The problem
Twelve years of travel writing in three languages (Spanish, English, Latvian) sat on a slow, ageing WordPress install — heavy pages, 8–14 second loads on mobile, and a design that no longer matched the work. The brief: make it fast and beautiful, but don't lose a decade of Google rankings.
What we did
We rebuilt it from the ground up as a custom Next.js site with a full redesign — lean navigation, header search, a GPS photo gallery and custom route maps. Every old permalink was mapped 1:1 with 301 redirects, and the whole archive was migrated to clean Markdown we can edit.
The result
Lighthouse Performance jumped from 58–62 into the 94–98 range on every page, loads got 3–4× faster, and page weight dropped up to 72% — while SEO hit 100 across the board and every URL kept its ranking. Google only noticed that the site got faster.
Want results like these?
If you're sitting on a slow site or a scary migration, that's exactly what we do. Let's talk.