About the client
The client is a well-established private medical and health sciences university in Malaysia with 30 years of focus on healthcare education. It has over 3,000 students, 30 partners, more than 20 programmes and specialities, and over 13,000 alumni.
The challenge
The university’s old website was slow and its content was hard to manage. More seriously, it had security problems. The university needed a site that was secure, easy to update, quick to load and able to grow with it, and that showed its programmes and students properly.
What we did
We built a new website from scratch.
- Content management. A WordPress CMS, so the university’s team can update content without developer help.
- User experience. The structure and layout were reworked for an easy, intuitive visit. We merged separate stand-alone pages and optimised content layout.
- Security. An SSL certificate and a content delivery and protection layer were put in place.
- Speed. Page loading was improved through the same changes.
- Scalability. The new site is built so that programmes, news and features can be added over time.
We agreed how to judge the project: user experience through surveys and analytics, loading speed and uptime, regular security scans and certificate checks, and how easily the team can manage content.
Results
The project delivered:
- previously separate pages merged into one structure;
- a modern, scalable website with a WordPress CMS;
- SSL certification and a content delivery and protection layer;
- faster page loading.
Speed, measured in a test before launch:
| Measure | Existing site | New hosting set-up |
|---|---|---|
| Load time | 4.47s | 2.65s |
| Page size | 5.3MB | 2.1MB |
| Requests | 193 | 104 |
| Speed grade | 67 | 94 |
Results in context
The speed figures come from a single test run before launch, comparing the existing site with the new hosting set-up. They show what the new set-up did for load time, page size, number of requests and speed grade before the site went live. They are test results, not measurements from live visitors after launch.
Speed matters for a university website because prospective students, partners and staff all arrive with different devices and connections, and a slow site is hard to use on a weak mobile signal. A lighter page with fewer requests is a basic part of that.
The other results, the merged pages, the WordPress content management system, the SSL certificate and the content delivery and protection layer, are changes to how the site is built and run. The source reports no traffic, ranking or enquiry results for this project, so we do not claim any.
Key takeaways
- A university website has to serve prospective students, partners and staff. Structure and content management matter as much as design.
- Security and speed are part of the brief, not extras.
- Plan for growth at the start so that adding programmes later does not mean another rebuild.
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