Case Study: Her Campus Media Achieves a High-Performance WordPress Migration with The Code Company

Her Campus Media halves load speed with The Code Company

Her Campus Media, a major US publication for college women, faced performance and scalability issues with its aging Drupal 7 website. The site had low Core Web Vitals scores and lacked the modern editorial tools needed for a media organization. To address this, Her Campus Media enlisted The Code Company to migrate their platform to WordPress.

The Code Company executed a complex migration of over 500,000 articles and other content to a new high-performance WordPress platform. They implemented a custom theme for a full site redesign and engineered a custom ad tech integration to fix layout shift issues. As a result, the site's load speed was cut in half, Core Web Vitals scores moved from the bottom 10% to the top 10%, and key engagement metrics like page views nearly doubled.

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