How Bulletproof Musician Achieved 90% Faster Site Speed

The Bulletproof Musician, a platform that blends music performance with sports psychology, faced frustratingly slow website performance despite seemingly powerful hosting. Switching to Rapyd hosting with less raw power on paper (but focusing on optimized performance) resulted in a dramatic improvement. Group activity feeds in their app went from a sluggish 20-30 seconds to load down to a snappy 2-3 seconds – a 90% reduction! This boost in speed translated to a happier and more engaged community of musicians.

Customer Introduction

The Bulletproof Musician, founded by Dr. Noa Kageyama, is a unique platform that goes beyond simply teaching music. They combine traditional music instruction with the principles of sports psychology, empowering musicians to overcome performance anxiety and achieve peak onstage presence. The platform offers many resources, including online courses, articles, and a vibrant online community where musicians can connect and support each other.

Problem

Despite their success in helping musicians unlock their full potential, The Bulletproof Musician faced a challenge – their website performance lagged behind. ” I would often get complaints from community members about the slowness of the group activity feeds and forums,” says Noa.

Their previous hosting plan offered seemingly robust resources (8GB RAM/4-core CPU), but the reality was sluggish loading times. “When clicking on a group’s activity feed in the app, it would typically take 20-30 seconds for any content to appear – no exaggeration,” Noa Shared, “even my sales pages were taking 5-7+ seconds to load, which was also concerning.”

He tried every trick in the book to cut down the loading time. “And this is even after using object caching and the WP Offload Media plugin to offload user-submitted videos and photos and serve these via a CDN,” shared Noa.

Even when he started considering Rapyd, he wasn’t sure it would be much better. Especially since it looked inferior on paper. “But I wasn’t sure how much faster they would load, especially when I was on a Rapyd plan that, on paper, offered only half of the power/resources of my previous plan with my prior host,” said Noa.

Solution

While looking for a new hosting for the Bulletproof Musician, Noa discovered Rapyd early as he is a BuddyBoss user. “I started hearing rumblings about Rapyd in the BuddyBoss Facebook group. But I also got emails as a BuddyBoss customer,” he said.

It caught his attention, and he wanted to try it because of his positive experience with BuddyBoss. “I went with the Starter plan,” Noa shared. He also shared that he used the free migration service Rapyd offers.

“I was worried about signing up for a new service like Rapyd, which didn’t have much of a track record,” Noa admits.

Results

The switch to Rapyd hosting brought about a dramatic improvement in the performance of the Bulletproof Musician.

For starters, the Group Activity Feed became much faster than before. “Group activity feeds in the app, the previous bottleneck taking 20-30 seconds to load. Now take only 2-3 seconds – a staggering 90% improvement,” Noa shared.

Website responsiveness also saw a significant boost. Pages across the entire site, from sales pages to course materials, now load significantly faster. Noa mentions, “Instead of waiting 3, 4, 5 seconds for each page to load on the WordPress backend, each page loaded in less than 2 seconds.”

He further added, “And the same difference in speed was noticeable on the site’s front-end as well. With everything from sales pages and checkout pages and course pages and forums and group activity feed loading up so faster than I’d ever seen.”

Conclusion

Now, The Bulletproof Musician website performs at the level their community deserves. Gone are the days of sluggish loading times and frustrated users. With a lightning-fast experience, musicians can access resources, connect with peers, and focus on achieving peak performance.

The positive impact is clear – complaints have vanished, and Noa is excited about the future.

Noa concluded by praising Rapyd and sharing, “I had never seen my site load so quickly,”

With a seamless platform supporting their mission, The Bulletproof Musician is poised to empower even more musicians. So they can conquer performance anxiety and reach their full potential.