Move off WordPress and Divi
WordPress Website Migration
A WordPress website migration with Jindy Web Design moves your Divi or WordPress site onto a fast, static build. Every page address that ranks keeps its address or gets a permanent redirect, your Google Analytics history carries over, and your enquiry form and automations move across unchanged.
Why move off a Divi or WordPress site?
Speed, upkeep and readability. Divi pages carry a lot of code, so they often load slowly on a phone, and entrance animations can leave sections blank until a script runs. Our own Divi home page took 10.5 seconds to show its main content on mobile (Google's "good" is under 2.5 seconds). A static build usually has no plugins to update and no database to attack, and every page arrives complete.
The home page wasn't the worst of it. On a phone, our About page scored 54 out of 100 for performance and took 16.4 seconds to show its main content. The Contact page scored 49 and weighed 5,358 KiB. Those are October 2026 Lighthouse numbers for the site this one replaces.
Is Divi the only reason a WordPress site is slow?
No. Hosting, caching, image sizes and plugins matter as much as the page builder. A cheap shared server or an extra plugin can slow down any site. Sometimes better caching or lighter images fix most of it. We check before recommending a move, and if your site can be sped up where it is, we'll say so.
In our case the caching was already done. The old site ran LiteSpeed Cache, serving cached pages, and still took 10.5 seconds to show the home page's main content on a phone. When good caching isn't enough, the weight is in the page itself, and that's when a rebuild earns its keep.
What stays the same when you migrate?
The things that already work for you:
- Your page addresses. Every URL that ranks keeps its address or gets a permanent (301) redirect to its new home. We check every redirect before and after launch.
- Your analytics history. We reuse your existing Google Analytics and Search Console. We never create new ones.
- Your enquiry form. The same form, so its automations keep running. We send a test lead from the preview before launch.
- Your email. Every email record is copied to the new DNS before anything switches over, and we test email straight after.
- Your old site, for a while. WordPress stays on its server for 30 days after launch as a fallback, and a final backup is kept.
What changes?
The pages are rebuilt and rewritten, not copied. Each page answers one customer question, with your facts as text. The site is hosted on Cloudflare in an account in your business's name, so you own it. There's no WordPress admin to log in to: we make your edits after launch, and each one is checked before it goes live. What the new site does that the old one couldn't.
How does a migration work?
Eight steps, and nothing goes live until you say so.
- Intake. We confirm access and take a "before" snapshot: rankings, speed, DNS and email.
- Audit. An SEO and AI-readiness audit of the current site, and a plan for which page owns which search.
- Strategy. The page plan, the full redirect map and the schema plan. You approve it.
- Design. Shown on your real home page. You approve it.
- Content. Written from facts you confirm. Anything we don't know is marked for you to check, never guessed.
- Build and QA. Every page tested for speed, mobile layout, broken links and redirects, then shared as a private preview link for you to sign off.
- Launch. DNS moved with every email record copied; it only goes live on your go.
- After launch. We watch Search Console daily for the first week and re-run the audit at four weeks.
Before and after
| What owners notice | Typical Divi / WordPress site | After the migration |
|---|---|---|
| Speed on a phone | Measured at intake (ours: 10.5 s to the main content, 2,116 KiB) | Ours: 1.0 s to the main content, 135 KiB |
| Updates and security | Plugin, theme and core updates to keep up with | No plugins or database to patch |
| What a visitor sees on load | Sections can stay blank behind entrance animations (ours: 45 blocks on 8 pages) | Everything, straight away |
| Page addresses | The ones Google already knows | Kept, or permanently redirected |
| Enquiry form and automations | Embedded on the old site | The same form and automations |
| Hosting | Usually a shared server | Cloudflare, in your business's own account |
I am blown away with the outcome
Paul is incredibly knowledgeable and his attention to detail is exceptional. I am blown away with the outcome he has achieved with our website and Google listing in such a short time frame. He has fulfilled everything he said he would as his communication is straight to business. It is refreshing being able to have someone like Paul look after one of the most important aspects of a small business and trust him completely to take the right path. He is always open to ideas and will always guide you in the right direction. I wish I could give more than 5 stars! ⭐️ Thank you again Paul & Team 👍🏼
Questions
Common questions
Will I lose my Google rankings?
A planned move protects them. Rankings are tied to page addresses, so we list every URL Google knows about (your sitemaps, Search Console and old redirects) and keep or redirect each one. Rankings can still move after a migration, so we check Search Console every day for the first week and fix anything that appears. Google's guide to site moves.
When is it time to move on from your web designer?
When the site no longer does the job and nothing changes when you ask. Signs: pages are slow on a phone, you can't get simple edits made, nobody can tell you where your enquiries come from, or you don't have access to your own domain, hosting or analytics. Ask for your logins first; you should own them whatever you decide.
Do I need to give you my WordPress login?
Yes, along with access to your hosting, domain registrar, Google Analytics, Search Console and Google Business Profile. We use them to export your redirects, check your data and copy your DNS. We record where your logins live, never the logins themselves.
Can you make the existing site faster instead?
Sometimes. If the slowness comes mostly from hosting, caching or oversized images, those can be fixed in place. If it's the page builder and its animations, a rebuild is usually the real fix. We'll tell you which, with the measurements.
What does a migration cost?
Every site is different, so there's no fixed price. Most sites we rebuild come down to about 10 strong main pages; a large blog or hundreds of pages changes the job, and we'll point that out up front. We quote once we've looked at your site.