Case Study
WordPress Image Optimization Case Study: The Website That Was Attacking Itself
A WordPress site was quietly attacking itself, generating 40 percent of its own traffic, while 58,698 optimized images sat unused. Desktop speed went from 49 to 100 once we found all three problems.
reCAPTCHA vs Turnstile: The Case Study of an Invisible Captcha Tax
Every visitor to this site was downloading the same 332KB captcha script eight times over, a 3.6MB tax nobody could see. Here is how we found it and fixed it in two days.
What Happens When a Care Plan Pauses: A 22-Pixel Layout Shift Case Study
A 22-pixel layout shift quietly pushed an Orlando WooCommerce store past Google Cumulative Layout Shift threshold. Here is how we found and fixed it.
WordPress Site Speed Audit: The 8MB That Most Tools Missed
A WordPress site speed audit uncovered 8.2MB of media hidden behind a CDN blind spot, invisible to GTmetrix and PageSpeed. Here is what we found and how we fixed it.
Case Study: The Missing Line of Code That Cost a Nonprofit 40 Seconds
A nonprofit client’s WordPress site looked fine on office WiFi, but took over 40 seconds to load on mobile. The cause was a single missing line of code silently disabling image lazy loading site wide. Here is the detective work behind the fix, and how total mobile load time dropped 72 percent in a day.
Site Can’t Be Reached on WiFi but Works on Cell: Your Domain May Be Flagged as Phishing
If your site works on cell data but shows site can’t be reached on WiFi, a DNS filtering service like Cisco OpenDNS may have flagged your domain as phishing. Here is how to diagnose it in under a minute and get it fixed.
Why Cloudflare Alone Won’t Protect Your WooCommerce Store
Cloudflare only protects traffic that actually goes through it. Here are the two ways attackers get around it, and the three layers that close the gap for good.
Anatomy of a WordPress Breach: A One-Day-Old Plugin Flaw, an Invisible Admin, and How We Shut It Down
A real WordPress security breach from our managed care fleet. An attacker used a newly disclosed plugin vulnerability to bypass the login screen entirely, planted two hidden backdoors, and created an admin account that respawned on every page load. Here is what we found and the exact order of operations that shut it down.
Site Slow Under Load? A Real Case Study in Why
A client’s site slowed to a crawl under load, but the server had power to spare. Here is the real cause we found and the fix that made it 30x faster at no added cost.
Bot Traffic Attack Case Study: Stopped Before Any Downtime
The Short Version A site we manage took a massive traffic surge one morning: many times its normal volume, all inside a single hour. It was a bot traffic attack. Nothing was broken yet, but that kind of flood takes a server down fast once it tips over. Our monitoring knows what normal looks like…