The Challenge
Fluke's product documentation and marketing sites were running on Drupal 7, a legacy platform reaching end-of-life. The sites suffered from poor performance (53 Lighthouse score), terrible SEO (46 score), and were difficult to maintain. We needed a modern platform that could deliver fast page loads, excellent SEO, and a better developer experience.
The Solution
I led the migration from Drupal 7 to Astro, a modern static site generator optimized for content-heavy sites. The project required careful content migration, URL mapping to prevent broken links, and performance optimization to maximize the benefits of the new platform.
Key technical achievements:
- Migrated content and URL structure with minimal 404s (clean cutover)
- Implemented image optimization and lazy loading strategies
- Set up Cloudflare RUM (Real User Monitoring) for performance tracking
- Created redirect mapping for legacy URLs to maintain SEO value
- Optimized font loading and caching strategies
The Impact
The migration delivered significant improvements across all metrics:
- Performance: +32% (53 → 70 Lighthouse score)
- SEO: +100% (46 → 92 Lighthouse score, nearly doubled)
- Best Practices: 100% (perfect score, up from 92)
- Accessibility: +8% (87 → 94)
- Real User Metrics: 91% of page loads achieving "Good" LCP scores (sub-1 second)
Post-launch monitoring revealed minimal 404 errors, with only a handful of legacy URLs needing redirects. The clean cutover demonstrated strong planning and execution, maintaining SEO value while delivering a dramatically faster user experience.
This project proved that strategic platform modernization can deliver immediate, measurable improvements while reducing long-term maintenance burden.