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Falcon Ridge
Real EstateBrandon, Florida6 weeks

Falcon Ridge

From invisible to market leader in 55+ independent living

285%Traffic Increase
60%More Enquiries
3Property Locations
6wkDelivered In
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Project Overview

About this project

Falcon Ridge Estates came to us with an outdated website that was losing potential residents to competitors. Their site was slow, not mobile-friendly, and had no meaningful presence in local search. We rebuilt it from scratch: a fast, conversion-focused WordPress site with local SEO baked in from day one.

Project Details

Client
Falcon Ridge
Industry
Real Estate
Location
Brandon, Florida
Duration
6 weeks
Year
2023

Tech Stack

WordPressCustom PHP ThemeYoast SEOGoogle Analytics

The Challenge

What was holding them back

Before we started, we ran a full audit of the existing site and the competitive environment. These were the core problems we needed to solve.

  • 1Site loaded in over 8 seconds on mobile, causing most visitors to leave immediately.
  • 2No local SEO: invisible in Google searches for 55+ living in Brandon, FL.
  • 3Generic template design that failed to convey warmth or trust for a senior living community.
  • 4Contact forms not tracking properly: enquiries were being lost.

Our Solution

What we built and why

Our approach was methodical: fix the technical foundations first, then focus on design and conversion. Every decision was driven by a measurable business result. Anything that did not move one of those numbers was left out of scope.

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  • Custom WordPress build with hand-coded theme: no page builders, no bloat.
  • Mobile-first responsive design built around how families actually research a senior living move.
  • Full local SEO setup: schema markup, Google Business Profile optimisation, location-specific content.
  • Core Web Vitals optimisation: sub-2-second load time on all devices.
  • Conversion-focused layout with clear CTAs and trust signals throughout.
  • Ongoing WordPress maintenance and support since launch: scheduled core, theme and plugin updates, security monitoring, and uptime checks that keep the sub-2-second load time holding steady.
  • One update left cache behavior inconsistent, so changes were not reflecting on the live site and the client was seeing a stale version. Cache layers were cleared, the cache configuration reviewed, and both browser- and server-side caching retested until updated content served consistently.

See The Transformation

The real before and after

Before
Falcon Ridge homepage before the redesign
After
Falcon Ridge homepage after the redesign

Client-Reported Results

Falcon Ridge: by the numbers

Falcon Ridge launched in 2023 after a 6 weeks build. The figures below are the change the client reported after that launch. We publish the client name and a link to the live site with every case study, so the site behind these numbers can be checked.

285%Traffic Increase
60%More Enquiries
3Property Locations
6wkDelivered In

More Work

Related case studies

Other projects with a comparable problem or industry. Each one names the real client, sets out what was built, and reports the measured change afterwards. None of them stop at describing the design.

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Book a free 30-minute consultation. We will review your current site, understand your goals, and tell you exactly what we would do differently and why. Builds start at $799 and ongoing care plans at $99 a month, quoted as a fixed number before any work begins.

Sources & authorship

Who wrote this, and what it is based on

Habib Ahmed, founder and lead developer at The Websloop
Habib Ahmed, founder and lead developer

Building client websites since 2015

Sources last checked 14 August 2026. Outside figures used on this page are listed here with their source, so you can check them yourself instead of taking our word for it.

Google treats a page as fast on three measures. Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5 seconds, Interaction to Next Paint under 200 milliseconds, and Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.1. All three are read at the 75th percentile of real page loads.

LCP should occur within 2.5 seconds of when the page first starts loading.
Core Web Vitals, web.dev (Google)https://web.dev/articles/vitals
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