AptEdge's website ran on WordPress, and keeping it running cost more than $30k a year: managed hosting, paid plugin and theme licences, and an outside agency for changes. It also didn't show what the product does.
I designed a new site and built it in Next.js, page by page. Drag across each page below to compare the old site with the new one, and scroll to see the whole page.
A stock video and an email box became a live investigation: a 3D knowledge graph you can watch work a ticket, hop by hop.
Managed WordPress hosting, paid plugin and theme licences, and the agency that maintained the old site, over a year. It's the yearly total, not an invoice-by-invoice audit.
Lighthouse 12.8 in Chrome, median of three runs on each site's home page, the old one on its WordPress host. These are lab numbers with simulated mobile throttling, so they compare the two sites rather than measure real visitors. The old site spent most of a second in WordPress before sending anything, loaded a 1.8 MB hero animation and a video player up front, and its hero moved three times while loading. One number went the wrong way: mobile LCP, 3.8s before and 5.4s now, from render-blocking CSS and text that fades in. That's the next fix.
Old pages are the WordPress site as it ran in production; new pages are the Next.js build. Each is the full page at 1440px wide. The blank stretch under the new home page's pinned hero is shortened, since a still capture can't show it pinned.
fewer worker restarts in production
AptEdge · Oct 2026
Search workers restarted every few minutes for five years, because health checks were aging them out. One hook stopped it.
faster frontend builds in CI, 12.3 to 3.3 minutes
AptEdge · Mar 2026
I moved the frontend from webpack to Vite on my own. CI builds got 3.7× faster, and the JavaScript the app loads up front fell 80%.
a year in crawler runs, down to cents a run
AptEdge · 2025
A crawler scraped one customer's articles for $10 and a couple of hours a run, three times a day. Calling their API with the login they'd shared cut each run to minutes and cents.