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WooCommerce Rebuild That Doubled Mobile Conversion

Stripped a bloated Elementor site, built a lean custom WooCommerce theme from scratch, and cut load times from 6.4 s to 2.1 s. Mobile conversion rate more than doubled.

E-Commerce / RetailEmber Tier

The Problem

Manella Stores had an e-commerce site that looked acceptable in the editor but performed poorly for real customers. The WooCommerce build depended on a heavy page-builder stack, too many plugins, and slow mobile pages. Since most traffic arrived on phones, performance issues were directly hurting conversion.

What We Built

We rebuilt the storefront around a lean custom WooCommerce theme, simplified the plugin stack, optimized product templates, and redesigned the checkout experience for faster purchasing. The work focused on the places where speed, clarity, and trust most directly affect revenue.

Technical Approach

The project combined theme development, WooCommerce optimization, caching, image delivery improvements, database cleanup, and a measured audit of the checkout funnel. We removed unnecessary page-builder overhead and replaced fragile plugin behavior with focused theme code.

Outcome

Load time dropped from 6.4 seconds to 2.1 seconds, mobile conversion more than doubled, and cart abandonment fell. The store gained a cleaner technical base for ongoing SEO, conversion testing, and merchandising work.

Technology Stack

WooCommercePHPCustom ThemePerformance

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