Case Study: Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok improves performance and usability with Polcode

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok boosts performance with Polcode, cutting image sizes by nearly 50%

The Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok, a leading Polish cultural institution, faced significant challenges with its legacy website platform. Outdated technology led to unreliable event listings, a broken multilingual setup with missing translations, and severe performance issues that impacted both visitors and internal staff. The institution engaged Polcode to address these problems and stabilize its critical online presence.

Polcode modernized the platform by upgrading it from PHP 7.4 to 8.3 and refactoring the codebase. The vendor reworked the multilingual system to eliminate hardcoded elements and fixed the root cause of the performance-draining translation processes. These actions, combined with image optimization that reduced file sizes by nearly 50% and a database cleanup that recovered 250 MB of space, resolved the critical issues. The result for the customer was a reliable, high-performance website that functions consistently across all devices and language versions.

Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok