News Publishing Platform Web Development and Design. Wordpress on Steroids for Stockhead!

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Heavy duty wordpress development and design for a popular finance & stock news website

Stockhead is a leading ASX small cap news website, with 1000’s of visitors a day. The legacy website was suffering reduced on page user times and increased bounce rates. We needed to fix this quickly and it needed to be easy to read, navigate and be super fast to load! See the website here.

Outcome

20% Session time increase
30% Organic google traffic increase
4 second load speed increase

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What Makes Great News Website Design and Development?

Leading edge load speed standards
CRO and Data driven design
Advanced WordPress Blog integrations
WP Engine WordPress development
A communicative and friendly team that understands your audience

Australias best web designers
SEO optimised written content
Excellent UX user experience design
Website training and ongoing support

Our Approach

With a thorough UX research and Strategy discovery phase, we cherry picked several areas we could improve quickly over several sprint style projects. Meanwhile we continued to design a website that would be easy to read with maximum on-page reading time and minimal bounce rates. For speed and security we powered this workhorse blog with a heavy duty wordpress WP-Engine setup.

What we achieved for Stockhead

A UX driven, fully researched, copy written, load speed optimised, on-brand, UX focussed, accessible, SEO optimised and industry leading ASX stock news website!

All developed on a lightning fast wordpress WP Engine platform with security optimisations to boot, not just a pretty facade. Our websites truly are work horses that just keep going! When it comes to news website design, your success is our success!

Good design can make for better readership. What’s your goal?

Engagement across devices was critical

Starting with an modernisation of the header menu, IA and navigation. We came up with a simple and engaging web design for reading on multiple multiple devices.

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