Company
Date Published
Author
Cory Mortimer
Word count
1047
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

In late 2018, Housecall Pro recognized the need to improve its marketing website, which was initially built on a legacy Ruby on Rails server, leading to slow loading times and inefficiencies in content creation. To address these issues, the company transitioned to Gatsby, a React-based framework that enhanced the site's speed, scalability, and SEO capabilities by rendering static HTML files. This change resulted in a significant increase in organic blog traffic by 973% and improved the website's presence on Google's first page by 56% within a few months. The integration of Contentful, a headless CMS, allowed non-developers to rapidly generate content, significantly increasing the pace of page creation. Housecall Pro capitalized on Gatsby's ability to generate numerous industry-specific pages using a single React template, thereby reducing developer time and expanding the site's content. The transition to Gatsby also benefited from its supportive community and documentation, making it a pleasurable development experience.