ZAYA Technical SEO & Performance Scaling

Client: ZAYA
Duration: 3 months
Completed: February 2026

Team Size

2 people

Budget

$500 .00

Services

4 services

Project Overview

For ZAYA to serve as the premier gateway to Madagascar, speed and search visibility were non-negotiable. We conducted a deep technical SEO overhaul combined with rigorous performance scaling. By implementing Redis caching for destination data and optimizing the MySQL backend for complex tourism queries, we ensured that the platform remains lightning-fast even during peak seasonal booking traffic. This project ensured that ZAYA’s rich content—from eco-lodges to local guide profiles—is perfectly structured for both search engines and high-speed user delivery.

Challenges

Latency in Destination Discovery

Initial response times were too high for travelers on mobile devices, leading to high bounce rates during the discovery phase.

Complex Content Hierarchy

Structuring thousands of tourism entities (guides, parks, hotels) into a sitemap that search engines can crawl efficiently without errors.

Scalability for Peak Season

Ensuring the platform could handle 10x traffic surges during Madagascar’s peak tourism months without performance degradation.

Solutions

On-Page & Technical SEO Audit

Utilized SEMrush and custom scripts to audit 500+ pages for meta-tag accuracy, H1-H6 hierarchy, and internal linking strength.

Impact: Achieved 100% sitemap validation and resolved all critical indexation errors.

High-Speed Caching with Redis

Integrated Redis to cache frequently accessed tourism data and destination availability, offloading heavy MySQL queries.

Impact: Reduced average database query time from 200ms to 15ms.

Visual Content Compression

Used Squoosh and PageSpeed Insights to optimize high-resolution tourism imagery for mobile-first delivery.

Impact: Improved overall page load speed by 62%.

Key Metrics & Results

62%

Response Time Improvement

reduced to 300ms

10x

Concurrent Capacity

scalability achieved

92%

Database Query Speed

faster with Redis

98/100

SEO Health Score

verified via SEMrush

Technologies & Tools

SEMRUSHPAGESPEEDRESPONSIVE TESTERREDISMySQL OptimizationSQUOOSH
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The speed and search presence of our platform are now our greatest competitive advantages. Travelers can discover the beauty of Madagascar in an instant, and our technical foundation is ready for the global stage.

Lynda Naomi
CEO at ZAYA

Team Highlights

SEO Strategist

Led the on-page content structure and sitemap validation for the Madagascar tourism database.

Performance Engineer

Implemented Redis caching and executed load testing to ensure 10x scalability.

Full-Stack Developer

Optimized code paths for faster rendering and integrated image compression pipelines.

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