Client: Arkivre (arkivre.com), Malta
Industry: property and legal services, online marketplace
What we did: WooCommerce multi-vendor marketplace, secure document delivery, launch tuning for speed, accessibility and search
Launched: 06.11.2026
Highlights: phone speed up to +28 points in one day (For Developments 66 → 93, About 68 → 94), 99/100 on computers, 100/100 for SEO
The client
Arkivre is a marketplace for notarial searches in Malta. Notaries upload the searches they’ve carried out on property developments, companies and individuals, and buyers pay online to download them instead of commissioning the same search again. It saves buyers time and money, and gives notaries a new way to earn from work they have already done.
The challenge
A marketplace like this has to get three things right at once. Buyers need to find the right document fast, on a phone as much as on a computer. Payments have to be secure and the document has to arrive the moment the payment clears. And the original documents must stay private: visitors can see enough to know they’re buying the right search, but nobody can download it without paying.
On the morning of launch day, the site worked, but it was slow on phones: the ten key pages averaged 67 out of 100 for speed in Google Lighthouse’s phone test.
What we built
- A multi-vendor shop on WordPress and WooCommerce with Dokan, so each notary manages their own listings and sales.
- Instant, private delivery. All 588 listings are downloadable products: the buyer gets the document in the order email and under My Account as soon as the payment clears. Originals stay private; visitors see a two-page watermarked preview.
- Live card payments through Stripe. Card details are typed into Stripe’s secure fields and never stored on the website.
- Search pages for every company, development and individual, each with its own title and description, plus a clean sitemap and Arkivre’s name and logo given to Google.
- Launch-day tuning. 97 images converted to WebP (11.5 MB less to download), fonts served from the site itself, and icon and form styles loaded after the page appears, so visitors see content sooner.
- Accessibility. Every button and form field has a name for screen readers, headings follow a clear structure, and text colours meet the WCAG AA contrast standard.
- A clean move to the new domain. Every old and alternative address forwards permanently (301) to arkivre.com.
The results
We ran the same Google Lighthouse phone test (a mid-range phone on slow 4G) on the same pages on the morning of launch day and again after the launch tuning:
| Page | Speed on a phone | Accessibility |
|---|---|---|
| Home | 57 → 79 | 89 → 96 |
| For Companies | 72 → 92 | 89 → 96 |
| For Individuals | 69 → 92 | 89 → 96 |
| For Developments | 66 → 93 | 89 → 96 |
| For Notaries | 73 → 93 | 89 → 96 |
| Pricing | 79 → 91 | 93 → 96 |
| About | 68 → 94 | 89 → 96 |
| FAQ | 78 → 81 | 94 → 96 |
| Contact | 51 → 79 | 92 → 97 |
| Development results | 58 → 83 | 90 → 100 |
| Average | 67 → 88 | 90 → 96 |
The launch audit on 06.11.2026 found:
- 99 out of 100 average speed on computers, and 100 out of 100 for both SEO and best practices.
- All 659 links on the 37 pages checked in full working, and every one of the 1,613 images carrying a text alternative.
- A title, a search description and one main heading on every page checked.
There’s still more to gain on a few pages, and we’re working on it with Arkivre in the weeks after launch.
What this means for a marketplace
Most people looking for a notarial search are on a phone, often between meetings. A page that appears in two seconds instead of five, a document that arrives the moment they’ve paid, and a site that works with a screen reader all mean fewer people giving up halfway.
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