Case study

LegalVision

How Australia's innovative commercial law firm scaled from a two-person startup to 150+ employees whilst becoming the country's #1 online legal service provider.

LegalVision
4k Threats Blocked Per Day
41.7x Fewer Origin Renders
300% Improvement in DOM Load Times

Technical review

What changed in production

Each study is structured around the operating problem, the Peakhour control path, and the measurable outcome.

Challenge

The Challenge

  • Small startup with limited tech resources constantly adding content for SEO marketing strategy
  • Struggling with scaling their WordPress site as content volume increased
  • Needed to reduce page load times to improve search rankings and user engagement
  • Required security layer to deal with constant hacking attempts on their legal platform
  • Performance issues threatening their growth trajectory and client acquisition

Solution

Peakhour's Solution

  • Simple DNS change enabled immediate website acceleration through global CDN infrastructure
  • Dynamic Content Caching eliminated need for WordPress to generate pages for 98% of requests
  • PageSpeed module optimised website by minifying CSS/JS and optimising images, cutting page sizes by over 50%
  • Implemented Peakhour managed OWASP ruleset with reputation-based blocklists in Web Application Firewall
  • Ongoing partnership providing security monitoring and performance optimisation for over 4 years

Results

The Results

  • Successfully scaled from 2-person startup to 150+ employees with multi-city operations
  • Became Australia's number one online law firm with global Alexa ranking of 82,000
  • 300% improvement in DOM load times enhancing user experience and search performance
  • 4,000 threats blocked per day protecting sensitive legal data and client information
  • Won SemRush 2018 best digital marketing team award with twice the engagement time of closest competitor

Customer quote

"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."
Evan Tait-Styles

Evan Tait-Styles

CTO, LegalVision.com.au

Peakhour controls used

Solution stack

The controls below are the relevant parts of the Peakhour request path for this customer outcome.

PERFORMANCE MODULE

Advanced Caching

Dynamic Content Caching storing website versions on Global CDN, eliminating WordPress page generation for 98% of requests.

Explore control

SECURITY MODULE

Web Application Firewall

OWASP managed rulesets with reputation-based blocklists protecting WordPress applications from security threats.

Explore control

PERFORMANCE MODULE

Image Optimisation

Automatic image compression and optimisation reducing page sizes by over 50% whilst maintaining visual quality.

Explore control

PERFORMANCE MODULE

Web Performance Optimisation

Comprehensive website acceleration including CSS/JS minification, global CDN delivery, and performance monitoring.

Explore control

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