AM Publicistas specializes in promotional and personalized advertising items. Their strength lies in offering unique, high-quality products with creative design and personalized service. When they reached out to us, they were facing severe performance and security issues that were harming their reputation and directly impacting sales.
We found that the site was taking more than 10 seconds to load even a simple product page, a delay that almost guarantees user abandonment. Additionally, there were security vulnerabilities exposing the store to potential threats or data leaks. We performed a comprehensive cleanup: removal of obsolete or vulnerable modules, updating PrestaShop, optimizing custom code, and adjusting server configurations. Thus, we drastically reduced load times, improved stability, and addressed the most urgent security gaps.
The old site, running on PrestaShop 1.7.3, had accrued so much technical debt that new design and feature deployments were difficult. We upgraded the store to version 8.2.3, overhauled the interface to match contemporary design standards: clean layout, simplified navigation, visually appealing catalogues, and fully responsive across devices. Additionally, we built a product customizer tool that allows customers to configure advertising items online: choosing colors, texts, visual add-ons, and various custom parameters. This tool adds value, enhances user experience, and expands the commercial capabilities of the business.
Alongside the technical enhancements, we worked intensively on internal SEO: optimizing meta titles, descriptions, clean URLs; reviewing headings, ALT attributes, and content semantics. We reorganized site architecture so that personalized products have visibility and proper weight in organic search results. Moreover, improvements in load speed and navigation have translated into better user metrics—lower bounce rates and longer session durations—which also positively impact SEO. The website is now better equipped to attract qualified traffic and convert it into real sales.