The Preserver
Momentum Environmental
A WordPress-to-Astro rebuild — an edge-served product site that loads instantly and is genuinely simple to maintain.
The Preserver is a simple, effective, and affordable gravity separator for stormwater treatment. It’s a product whose entire pitch is that it does one job well — so its website had no business being complicated.
The problem
The existing site ran on WordPress, and it showed. Requests lagged, and content was buried under layers of plugins and tangled admin screens that made even small updates a chore. For a product that sells on simplicity, the marketing site was working against the message.
What I built
I moved the client off WordPress and rebuilt the site on Astro, a modern static site generator purpose-built for content sites. The result is lightning fast, served on the edge, and dramatically simpler to manage — content lives in version control instead of behind a maze of plugins, and pages ship as static output to a CDN rather than being assembled on every request.
The approach mirrors the product itself: strip away everything that isn’t earning its place, and what’s left is fast, durable, and easy to live with. (It’s the same philosophy — and the same stack — behind this very site.)
Why it matters
A faster site that’s easier to update is a better front door for the business — no plugin bloat to babysit, no slow page loads standing between a visitor and the product.
Stack
- Astro — static site generator built for content
- Edge/CDN delivery — static output served close to the user
- Git-based content — version-controlled, no plugin admin