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Migrate to Astro

Are you tired offighting WordPress?

WordPress was great ten years ago. Today, it just holds you back. Our solution is simple: migrate your entire website onto . We handle the entire migration for you, then teach you to run it yourself using AI.

Migrate your website to Astro
The state of WordPress, 2026

WordPress's share of the web has fallen from 65.2% at its 2022 peak to 59.2%1 — while the plugin ecosystem it depends on gets riskier every year.

11,334new vulnerabilities across the WordPress ecosystem in 2025 — up 42% in a single year2
91%were found in plugins — not WordPress core, but the parts you bolt on to run a real site3
46%never got a developer fix before the vulnerability was publicly disclosed4
5 hrsfrom public disclosure to mass exploitation for heavily targeted flaws5

Every plugin adds another vendor, another update cycle, another way in. Security plugins, caching plugins, page builders, forms, backups — each solves one problem and creates a site that needs constant supervision. Your website should be a business asset, not a patch-management project.See what that costs you per year →

01 · Before → after

Same website, better performance.

WordPressWordPress
Failed Core Web Vitals
Slow navigation and page load
3 layers of caching
Managing multiple plugins
Days or weeks to iterate
Dependent on devs & designers
AstroAstro
Passed Core Web Vitals
Immediate navigation and page speed
1 caching layer, at the edge
No plugins to maintain
Hours or minutes to iterate
No dependency — just

WordPress passes Core Web Vitals on fewer than half of mobile sites.Calculate your savings →

Lightning speed website updates
02 · Why we exist

We got quoted $2,000 to fix our own Core Web Vitals. So we pulled the plug.

Photo of Benjamin Thornton
Benjamin Thornton
Photo of Artem Brezhniev
Artem Brezhniev

We're not an agency. We're just two colleagues turned friends on a mission to help websites break away from WordPress for good.

Like a lot of website owners, ours ran on WordPress and Elementor: an agency build, stuffed with plugins, impossible to touch without something breaking. We spent more time debugging it than updating it. And one problem never went away — our Core Web Vitals. We fixed them more than once, but it never lasted. So when we got quoted $2,000 to fix them yet again, we ditched the plugins for good and moved the whole site to Astro.

It took less than 10 days, and it was transformative. The site got faster, the Core Web Vitals improved dramatically, and updating it became ridiculously fast — with Astro, you connect your site to AI tools like Claude and change anything just by describing it.

That's why we're here. What worked for our site can work for yours. If you're tired of fighting WordPress, get in touch.

03 · Methodology

From migration to handoff, in six steps.

01
Discovery call. Book a 20-minute call. We look at your site together, scope the work, and make sure it's a fit — both ways.
02
Free homepage preview. If it's a fit, we rebuild your homepage in Astro, free. You judge us by the result before paying anything.
03
Approve & start. Like the preview? You create a GitHub repo and add us, we invoice half, and migrate the full site inside it — yours from the first commit.
04
Delivery. We hand over the finished site — your technical SEO (redirects, schema, internal linking, content) preserved exactly, improved where we see room. Hosting, domain, and deploys set up if you need. Balance due on delivery. It's yours.
05
Onboarding. We teach you to run it with Git and Claude Code — edit, publish, update — until you can do it without us.
06
If something breaks because of our work, we fix it — free — while you find your footing.
04 · Proof

Keyword.com — WordPress → Astro in under 10 days.

BEFORE · WordPress · Clunky and hard to update
Keyword.com homepage before, on WordPress
AFTER · Astro · Fast and effortless to update
Keyword.com homepage after, on Astro
CORE WEB VITALS BEFORE · Performance 33
33
Performance
89
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
98
SEO
CORE WEB VITALS AFTER · all green
98
Performance
93
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
100
SEO

Our own site — the exact before/after we promise, done fast. Two more migrations join it as they ship.

Ready for the same before/after?

05 · Frequently Asked Questions
Why Astro over Framer or Lovable?

They're genuinely good at getting a nice-looking site up fast. For everything after that, Astro wins: almost no JavaScript by default, real code with no platform lock-in, free and open source with near-zero hosting cost, and especially strong for content-heavy sites.

Are you a marketing agency?

No. We're two people who migrated our own site — Keyword.com — off WordPress after being quoted $2,000 just to fix its Core Web Vitals. It worked so well we decided to do it for others. We're not here to become your ongoing vendor.

Is the code clean, or AI slop?

Clean. We build to established best practices and manually review every migration, so the code underneath is solid — not fast-but-fragile output you'd be afraid to touch.

Is the site easy to update with Astro?

Extremely. You tell Claude, Codex, or whichever LLM you use what you want changed, and it happens. A rigorous design system keeps every change — and every new page — coherent with the rest of your site.

Do you need access to my site, or an NDA?

Neither. Your site is already public, so we rebuild from what's live — no logins, no credentials, no access to your WordPress admin. You send us your assets (images, fonts, video) directly, and since we only work with publicly available sites, there's nothing an NDA would cover.

Is Astro good for SEO?

Yes. Great Core Web Vitals, static pages the AI answer engines can actually read and cite, and the technical SEO structure in place so your site launches SEO-ready.

Do you change the design of the website?

We aim to keep the design 100% identical to the WordPress version of your site. Because we implement a proper design system, any irregular patterns in the original (say, inconsistencies between an h1 and its paragraphs) may come out slightly different — but only ever in ways that improve the site. As for assets — images, videos, fonts, and other design markers — you supply them to us directly, so the result corresponds exactly to the site you had on WordPress.

How would you like to start?

We review every entry and reply either way.
Savings calculator

What is WordPress actually costing you?

Assumes each WordPress edit takes 2.5 developer hours plus 1 hour of your time. With Astro + AI, the same edit takes 15 minutes of your own time.

WordPressWordPress today
HostingWP Engine Professional · $69/mo$828
Developer time4 edits × 2.5h × $80$9,600
Your time4 edits × 1h × $60$2,880
Plugin licensestypical stack · $25/mo$300
WP Engine add-onsupdates + WAF + NitroPack · $100/mo$1200
Per year$14,808
AstroAfter migration
HostingNetlify / Cloudflare · free tier$0
Developer timenot needed$0
Your time4 edits × 15min × $60$720
Claude subscription$20/mo$240
Security & speedCloudflare + static · included$0
Per year$960

You'd save$13,848every year — $1,154 a month.