Healthcare Case Study
WordPress to ReactJS Migration — ALRIC Orthopaedic Centre
ALRIC (Advanced Limb Reconstruction & Ilizarov Centre) needed a faster, more reliable website. Migrating from a bloated WordPress setup to a lean ReactJS stack cut load times by 60% and improved every Core Web Vital.
Challenge
The business problem
The orthopaedic centre's original website was built on WordPress with multiple plugins, heavy page builders and unoptimised media. The site suffered from slow page loads (4-6s), poor mobile performance, frequent plugin compatibility issues and limited flexibility for custom treatment pages. The practice needed a modern, fast-loading website that ranked well on Google and provided a smooth experience for patients booking consultations.
"The old WordPress site was slow and hard to update. The new ReactJS site loads instantly on mobile, looks cleaner and our Google rankings have improved noticeably."
Solution
What Curve Metrics shipped
- Rebuilt the entire frontend in ReactJS for a lightweight, component-based architecture with zero unnecessary dependencies
- Migrated content from WordPress to a headless setup, serving static HTML for near-instant page loads on any device
- Eliminated all page builder bloat — every treatment page is a purpose-built React component styled for readability and SEO
- Optimised image delivery with modern formats, lazy loading and responsive breakpoints to reduce total page weight by 70%
- Implemented structured data (LocalBusiness, MedicalWebPage, FAQ schema) directly in React components for rich search results
- Set up proper meta management with unique title, description and OG tags per page for improved social sharing and search ranking
- Added appointment CTAs, WhatsApp integration and doctor profile sections as modular React components for easy future updates
Results
Measured outcomes
29ms TTFB (Time to First Byte) — down from 800ms+ on the old WordPress host
512ms total load time — a 7x improvement over the previous 4s+ load
1.3s First Contentful Paint — well under the 1.8s Google threshold
100% static React output — zero server dependency, zero plugin risk
97 indexed pages with clean semantic HTML for optimal search crawling
9 missing alt tags identified and fixed for full accessibility compliance
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