Case study · Joomla to WordPress

FDS Consult, traffic nearly doubled

Fire safety consultants for some of the UK's largest developments. We moved their dated Joomla site to a responsive WordPress site, cutting the bounce rate by 15% and nearly doubling traffic.

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Client: FDS Consult
Sector: Fire safety consultancy
Platform: Joomla → WordPress
Services: WordPress design & development

The brief

Dated, bouncing and hard to use

The FDS Group provides fire safety consultancy for some of the largest developments in the UK. They asked us to rebrand fdsconsult.com to better show their work and the type of projects they take on.

The site looked dated and had a high bounce rate. It was built on Joomla, which was hard to use and lacked the latest SEO and responsive features.

Considered

Joomla

Outdated, hard to use, and missing modern SEO and responsive features.

Chosen

WordPress

A platform the team already knew
Custom modules for extra functionality

How we did it

Research, redesign, migrate

01
Persona research
Research and analysis of the target audiences.
02
Responsive redesign
Clear calls to action, webinar sign-ups, an intuitive case studies section and the scale of their work.
03
Content migration
Content moved from Joomla to WordPress and optimised for SEO.
04
301 redirects
Redirects in place so existing links and rankings carried over.

The result