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WordPress to Astro

Zero JS DefaultLighthouse 10090% CSS Reduction

WordPress zu Astro Migration

Ihre WordPress-Site verliert Geschwindigkeit, bevor Google sie überhaupt bewertet

100

Lighthouse Score

All four categories

90%

CSS Reduction

67KB → 6.6KB

0ms

Total Blocking Time

Zero render-blocking JS

0.18s

Page Load

Down from 3.2s

What Actually Ships When You Move WordPress to Astro — And What Gets Left Behind

Your content exports from WordPress as structured Markdown files with frontmatter metadata. Every page builds into static HTML with zero runtime JavaScript. Images auto-generate five responsive sizes during migration. The whole site deploys to edge CDN nodes in 47 cities—so a visitor in Mumbai gets the same sub-300ms load time as someone in Virginia. Your MySQL database? Gone. Your plugin update treadmill? Gone. What you keep: full Git history on every post, perfect Lighthouse scores, and a hosting bill that drops from $80/month to $11. The architecture isn't clever—it's just brutally simple. Static files don't have database queries to slow them down or attack vectors to patch.

Wo Projekte scheitern

WordPress dumps 13+ KB of JavaScript and 67+ KB of CSS on every single page — even when nothing on that page is interactive Google's watching your Core Web Vitals, and slow scores are dragging your organic rankings down right now, every day.

25+ plugins is a maintenance treadmill Constant update cycles, things breaking when plugins don't play nice together, security gaps you don't find out about until it's too late. Unpatched plugins are the #1 WordPress attack vector. One breach and you're not just dealing with cleanup costs — you're dealing with customers who don't trust you anymore.

Every page request fires a database query, so your TTFB falls apart the moment traffic spikes Your site goes down exactly when it can't afford to — a product launch, a press mention, the moment someone important is looking.

WordPress themes ship full CSS frameworks you're probably using 10% of A mobile user on a 3G connection is gone before your hero image finishes loading. You never even knew they were there.

Managed WordPress hosting costs $30–200/month for performance that's still mediocre Static edge hosting makes that bill nearly disappear.

Your content is locked in a MySQL database — no version control, no Git history, no clean exit path One corrupted backup and years of writing are gone with nothing to recover from.

Compliance

Automated Content Export

We pull everything out — posts, pages, categories, tags, media — via WordPress REST API and WXR export. Custom scripts handle internal link reconstruction and frontmatter metadata generation automatically. You don't have to touch it.

Zero-JS Architecture

Astro ships zero client-side JavaScript by default, which means render-blocking scripts are just gone. Interactive islands load only when they're actually needed, keeping Total Blocking Time at 0ms.

Sharp Image Pipeline

Every image runs through Sharp 0.33.5, gets converted to WebP with fallbacks, and is generated at five responsive sizes from 320 to 1440px. Lazy loading kicks in automatically for anything below the fold.

Type-Safe Content Collections

Zod schemas validate every piece of content at build time. Broken frontmatter gets caught before it ever touches production — not after it's been quietly degrading your performance for weeks.

301 Redirect Mapping

Every WordPress URL maps to its Astro equivalent with server-side 301 redirects. No link equity lost. Your existing backlinks keep passing authority exactly where they should.

Edge CDN Deployment

Static HTML deploys to Cloudflare Pages with global edge caching. No database queries, no server processing. TTFB drops below 70ms from anywhere in the world.

Was wir bauen

Ships 13+ KB of unused JavaScript on every page—even static about pages with zero interactive elements

Version-controlled Markdown files with frontmatter—your content lives in plain text with full Git history and zero lock-in

Forces 25+ plugin updates every month, each one a potential compatibility break or unpatched security hole

Automated responsive image generation creates five optimized sizes per asset during migration with zero manual resizing

Fires database queries on every single page request, so your TTFB collapses the moment traffic spikes above normal

Semantic HTML with proper heading hierarchy, ARIA labels, and structured data that actually earns rich search results

Loads full CSS frameworks where you're using maybe 10% of the selectors, bloating mobile paint times by seconds

Auto-generated XML sitemaps and robots.txt at build time so crawlers stop wasting budget on pagination junk

Costs $30–200/month for managed hosting that still delivers mediocre Core Web Vitals under any real load

CSS purging strips unused selectors and inlines critical styles—typically a 90% reduction in what actually ships to browsers

Locks your content inside MySQL with no version control, no rollback history, and one corrupted backup away from total loss

Lighthouse CI blocks any deploy below your score thresholds, so performance regressions never make it to production

Unser Prozess

Audit & Export

We start by crawling your WordPress site and cataloging every URL, plugin dependency, and content type. Content comes out via REST API using automated scripts that keep your metadata and internal link structure intact.

Week 1

Convert & Structure

Posts and pages become Markdown files with Zod-validated frontmatter. Images run through Sharp for WebP conversion and responsive sizing. Internal links get rewritten to match the new URL structure.

Week 1-2

Build & Optimize

Then we build your Astro site — content collections, semantic markup, structured data, optimized font loading. Every page is targeting Lighthouse 100 across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. That's the goal, not a stretch target.

Week 2-3

Redirect & Deploy

301 redirect maps cover every legacy URL. The site deploys to Cloudflare Pages with edge caching, and visual regression tests confirm the new build matches the original design at the pixel level.

Week 3

Monitor & Support

After launch, we monitor Core Web Vitals, crawl errors, and ranking changes for 30 days. Anything that surfaces while Google re-indexes your new architecture gets fixed.

Week 4-6

AstroSharpCloudflare PagesMarkdownZodTypeScript

Häufige Fragen

Wie lange dauert eine WordPress-zu-Astro-Migration?

Die meisten Migrationen sind in 3 Wochen abgeschlossen. Sites unter 50 Seiten mit sauberen Content-Strukturen können in 2 Wochen fertig sein. Größere Sites – 500+ Seiten, komplexe Custom-Post-Types, starke Plugin-Abhängigkeiten – könnten 4–5 Wochen dauern. Die automatisierten Export- und Conversion-Scripts komprimieren das, was sonst Tage manuelle Arbeit wären, in wenige Stunden.

Verliere ich meine Google-Rankings nach der Migration?

Nein. Jede WordPress-URL wird ihrer Astro-Entsprechung mit serverseitigen 301-Weiterleitungen zugeordnet, sodass Ihre Link-Equity erhalten bleibt. Strukturierte Daten, Meta-Tags und Sitemaps werden alle während der Migration neu erstellt. Die meisten Clients sehen tatsächlich Ranking-Verbesserungen innerhalb von 4–6 Wochen – Core-Web-Vitals-Scores steigen deutlich an, und Google reagiert schnell auf schnellere Seitenerfahrungen.

Kann ich Inhalte immer noch ohne WordPress bearbeiten?

Ja. Ihr Content lebt als Markdown-Dateien, die Sie in jedem Text-Editor, VS Code oder einem Headless-CMS wie Tina, Decap oder Keystatic bearbeiten können, wenn Sie eine visuelle Oberfläche wünschen. Änderungen werden automatisch über Git bereitgestellt. Viele Clients bevorzugen diesen Workflow letztendlich – jede Bearbeitung hat einen Versionsverlauf und kann überprüft werden, bevor sie live geht. Es ist kontrollierter als der WordPress-Editor je war.

Was passiert mit meinen WordPress-Plugins?

Jedes Plugin wird einzeln bewertet. Kontaktformulare werden zu statischen Handlern wie Formspree oder Netlify Forms. SEO-Plugins werden durch Astros integrierte Meta-Tag- und Sitemap-Generierung ersetzt. Analytics wechseln zu leichtgewichtigen Scripts. E-Commerce-Plugins benötigen möglicherweise eine Headless-Lösung wie Snipcart. Jeder Austausch wird im Migrationsplan dokumentiert, bevor wir etwas anfassen.

Ist Lighthouse 100 für jede Seite realistisch?

Für inhaltsgesteuerte Seiten – ja. Astros JavaScript-freier Standard beseitigt direkt die größte Performance-Bottleneck. Seiten mit eingebetteten Third-Party-Scripts wie Analytics, Chat-Widgets oder Video-Embeds könnten bei 95–99 landen, wegen Faktoren außerhalb Ihrer Kontrolle. Wir optimieren alles innerhalb Ihrer Domain und geben Ihnen klare Anleitung, um Third-Party-Auswirkungen zu minimieren, wo wir nicht direkt Kontrolle haben.

Wie viel spare ich beim Hosting nach der Migration?

Cloudflare Pages bietet kostenloses Static Hosting mit unbegrenzter Bandbreite. Selbst Enterprise-Tier-Edge-Hosting kostet etwa 20 €/Monat, im Vergleich zu 100–200 €/Monat für verwaltetes WordPress. Ehrlich gesagt kommen die größeren Einsparungen aus dem Wegfall von Plugin-Lizenzgebühren, Sicherheitsüberwachungstools und den Entwicklerstunden, die Sie derzeit nur dafür ausgeben, WordPress aktuell und kompatibel zu halten.

WordPress to Astro from $6,000

Fixed-fee. Includes content migration, image optimization, redirect mapping, and 30-day post-launch support.

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