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Case study: how Granja Natura tripled online enquiries

Granja Natura had a Kit Digital site generating zero bookings. serpixel built a 100/100 PageSpeed site with trilingual blog that tripled enquiries in 90 days.

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Family visiting an educational farm with animals outdoors

Key points

From 18/100 to 100/100 PageSpeed: Granja Natura's old website, built with WordPress via Kit Digital, scored 18/100 on mobile performance. The new Astro site hits 100/100 across all metrics.
26 trilingual blog posts: In 4 months, serpixel published 26 articles in Catalan, Spanish, and English, ranking Granja Natura for 50+ local keywords.
3x online enquiries in 90 days: Contact form enquiries tripled compared to the previous 3 months, with zero advertising spend.
Page 1 on Google for 12 terms: Granja Natura ranks on Google page 1 for terms like 'educational farm Barcelona', 'nature activities kids Catalonia', and 'farm visit near Barcelona'.

Granja Natura is an educational farm near Barcelona offering school visits, family activities, and animal experiences for children. When they contacted serpixel, they had a problem shared by thousands of Catalan SMBs: a website that existed but wasn’t working for them.

The starting point

Granja Natura’s previous website was built by a Kit Digital provider. As often happens with these government-subsidised projects, the result was a generic WordPress site that met the programme’s minimum requirements but generated zero real results.

What was wrong:

  • 18/100 mobile PageSpeed. The site took over 6 seconds to fully load. 53 % of mobile visitors abandon a site that takes more than 3 seconds.
  • Invisible on Google. Granja Natura didn’t appear on page one for any of their main terms: “educational farm Barcelona”, “nature activities for kids”, or “farm visits Catalonia”.
  • No fresh content. The blog had 2 posts published on Kit Digital delivery day and nothing since, for 8 months.
  • No multilingual support. Spanish only, despite most families searching for educational activities in Catalonia doing so in Catalan.
  • Broken contact form. The form sent messages to an email nobody checked.

The result: bookings came exclusively from word of mouth and social media. The website was, in practical terms, invisible.

What serpixel did

Phase 1: Analysis and design (Week 1)

Before touching a line of code, serpixel did three things:

  1. Full audit of the existing site. PageSpeed, SEO, structure, content, competitors. Everything documented with concrete data.
  2. Keyword research. Identification of 50+ terms families search when looking for an educational farm in Catalonia.
  3. Custom design. A complete preview.html capturing Granja Natura’s identity: warm tones, real animal photography, editorial typography. Approved by the client within 48 hours.

Phase 2: Build (Weeks 2-4)

The site was built with Astro, the framework serpixel uses for all projects. The reasons:

  • 100/100 PageSpeed guaranteed. Astro generates pure static HTML. Zero unnecessary JavaScript. Granja Natura’s site loads in under 1.5 seconds.
  • Trilingual from day one. Catalan (SEO priority), Spanish, and English. Every page with correct hreflang tags and adapted translations, not literal ones.
  • Integrated blog. 12 initial articles published in 3 languages (36 files total), each optimised for a specific keyword.
  • Working contact form. Connected to an email checked daily, with automatic notifications.

Phase 3: SEO content (Months 2-4)

This is where serpixel’s subscription model makes the difference. While a traditional agency would have delivered the site and disappeared, serpixel kept publishing:

  • 4 blog posts per month, each in 3 languages
  • Local keywords: “educational farm near Barcelona”, “nature activities kids Catalonia”, “visit educational farm”
  • Seasonal content: articles about spring activities, summer camps, school visits
  • Internal linking between articles to build topical authority

In total, 26 articles published in 4 months. Each with translations, SEO metadata, schema.org markup, and optimised images.

The results

Technical performance

MetricBefore (Kit Digital)After (serpixel)
Mobile PageSpeed18/100100/100
LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)6.2 s1.1 s
CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)0.340.01
Total page weight3.8 MB420 KB
Languages1 (ES)3 (CA, ES, EN)

Google rankings

After 90 days with the new site and fresh content:

KeywordPosition beforePosition after
educational farm BarcelonaNot indexedTop 5
nature activities kids CataloniaNot indexedTop 10
educational farm near BarcelonaNot indexedTop 5
school visits farm CataloniaNot indexedTop 10
animal activities kids BarcelonaNot indexedTop 10

Business results

  • 3x online enquiries through the contact form (compared to the previous 3 months)
  • First direct bookings from Google: families who found Granja Natura by searching “nature activities kids” on Google, with no prior reference
  • 5x website traffic: from 200 visits/month to over 1,000 visits/month

All of this without a single euro spent on Google Ads or paid advertising. Organic SEO and quality content only.

Why it worked

Three factors made Granja Natura’s project successful:

1. Technical performance. A site that loads in 1 second instead of 6 doesn’t just improve SEO; it retains visitors. The bounce rate dropped from 72 % to 38 %.

2. Catalan content. Competition for “educational farm Barcelona” in Spanish is high. In Catalan, almost nobody publishes quality content. serpixel leveraged this advantage: 26 articles in Catalan ranked Granja Natura for dozens of local terms with very low competition.

3. Consistency. It’s not about publishing 10 articles one day and disappearing. serpixel publishes 4 articles per month, every month. Google rewards consistency: a site that publishes regularly is a site Google considers active and relevant.

What you can learn from this case

If your business has a Kit Digital website that isn’t generating results, the pattern is probably the same:

  • Slow site because it was built with poorly configured WordPress
  • No fresh content because the provider disappeared
  • No rankings because nobody did real SEO
  • No multilingual support because the budget didn’t cover it

The good news is that this is fixable. serpixel offers free website audits: within 24 hours we tell you exactly what’s wrong, what can be improved, and what impact it would have on your business.

If you want results like Granja Natura’s, request your free audit at serpixel.com. No strings attached.

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Frequently asked questions

Granja Natura follows serpixel's standard model: an initial 4-month build phase (design, development, launch) and a monthly growth plan from month five onwards for maintenance, SEO content, and ongoing optimisation. There was no large upfront payment. Investment is quoted after a discovery session tailored to your case, and includes the complete website, 26+ blog posts, maintenance, and SEO.
The initial design (preview.html) was delivered in under 24 hours. Conversion to Astro, content integration, and the first blog posts were ready in 3 weeks. The site was live on its own domain in under 4 weeks from project start.
The Kit Digital website had three serious problems: very slow loading speed (18/100 PageSpeed), zero Google rankings for their main terms, and a generic design that didn't reflect the farm's identity. Additionally, the Kit Digital provider offered no maintenance or updates after delivery.
Yes, if your business is an SMB in Catalonia that needs online visibility. serpixel works with rural tourism businesses, restaurants, wineries, construction companies, solar installers, and professional services. Request a free website audit at serpixel.com to see what can be improved.