Case Study LegalVision

Evan, the CTO of LegalVision, was facing a difficult challenge. As a small startup with limited tech resources, LegalVision was constantly adding content to their WordPress site as part of their SEO marketing strategy. However, they were struggling with scaling the site. They needed to reduce page load times to help with search rankings and user engagement, as well as implement a security layer to deal with constant hacking attempts.

In search of a solution, Evan approached Peakhour, where he connected with Adam, an expert in website optimisation and security. Adam took on the challenge of helping LegalVision overcome their performance and security issues.

Adam and his team at Peakhour started by making a simple DNS change, which allowed Peakhour to immediately accelerate LegalVision's website. LegalVision heavily utilised Peakhour's Dynamic Content Caching feature to store a version of their website on a Global CDN, saving the need for WordPress to generate pages. With Peakhour handling over 98% of requests, the scalability issues were eliminated. At the same time, Peakhour's PageSpeed module optimised the website by minifying CSS/JS and optimising images, cutting page sizes by more than half.

To secure the WordPress application, Peakhour applied the Peakhour managed OWASP ruleset along with several reputation-based blocklists in its Web Application Firewall (WAF).

As a result of Adam and Peakhour's efforts, LegalVision has utilised Peakhour for over four years now and has grown from a two-person startup to having over 150 employees, with offices in several cities. They have become the number one online law firm in Australia. The key outcomes of this collaboration include blocking 4,000 threats per day, saving 97.6% in traffic, and achieving a 300% improvement in DOM load times.

Evan, the CTO of LegalVision, said, "Legalvision is ranked 82,000 globally on Alexa with twice the engagement time of our closest competitor in our space, winning the SemRush 2018 best digital marketing team. We attribute part of this success to the excellent page speed Peakhour.IO provides."

Thanks to the partnership between Evan from LegalVision and Adam from Peakhour, LegalVision has not only overcome their initial challenges, but also found lasting success and growth in their market.