Case Study: a leading London estate agency achieves 10x faster property search with Wirebox

Leading London Estate Agency speeds property search 10x with Wirebox

A leading London estate agency faced significant performance issues with their website, including slow property searches and frequent timeouts that were being masked by Cloudflare. They engaged Wirebox for a Laravel consultancy and database review to diagnose and resolve these problems.

Wirebox identified an outdated Laravel version, inefficient database queries with a lack of indexing, and code quality issues like hardcoded paths and the N+1 query problem. By updating the stack, adding database indexes, and fixing the code, Wirebox achieved a 10x speed improvement, reducing a critical search query time from 8.39 seconds to just 0.77 seconds.