Today on WordPress
garage-services-online.co.uk ↗
- Main content visible
- 24.0 s
- First thing on screen
- 3.2 s
- Page visibly complete
- 11.8 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 600 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.00
The same page on Astro
this demo ↗
- Main content visible
- 1.8 s
- First thing on screen
- 1.2 s
- Page visibly complete
- 1.2 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 0 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.03
What Astro changes on a phone
+55Performance points
+22Accessibility points
0Best Practices points
+15SEO points
93% fasterMain content visible
90% fasterPage visibly complete
Today on WordPress
garage-services-online.co.uk ↗- Main content visible
- 4.2 s
- First thing on screen
- 700 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 2.3 s
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 500 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.05
The same page on Astro
this demo ↗- Main content visible
- 400 ms
- First thing on screen
- 300 ms
- Page visibly complete
- 300 ms
- Frozen to taps and clicks
- 0 ms
- Layout jumping
- 0.02
What Astro changes on a desktop
+49Performance points
+21Accessibility points
0Best Practices points
+15SEO points
91% fasterMain content visible
87% fasterPage visibly complete
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, alternating, in the same time window; the middle result (median) is shown. Ranges: mobile 41–54 on WordPress, 99–100 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), alternating original and copy in the same time window.
- 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, jQuery, Visual Composer page builder or theme code.
- Same content: every heading, paragraph, image, review, partner logo and form field is taken from the live homepage, in the same order, with the same brand colours and the same font (Montserrat, served from the demo itself).
- Tracking and chat tags not loaded: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, the Facebook page feed and the msgboxx WhatsApp chat widget are left out so demo visits never reach Garage Services Online's analytics or chat inbox. On a live build they would load after cookie consent.
- The call-back form and newsletter sign-up are shown but do not send anything; links are inert because this demo is the homepage only.
- Cookie notice: shown as on the live site; the demo sets no cookies, so Accept simply closes it.
- Accessibility: the brand blue and green on buttons are shown a shade darker so white button text passes the contrast standard Lighthouse checks; the page uses one top-level heading. The brand look is otherwise unchanged.
- Coloured diagonal section edges are drawn with CSS instead of 3000-pixel-wide background images.
- Look-alike check: Rebuilt to match the live page at phone and desktop widths: same sections, order, text and images, with working menu, hero slider, review carousel and results slider (checked with Playwright). Small differences in spacing, line breaks and entrance animations remain.
- 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