Notum Empowers Meilisearch to Unlock the Full Potential of Strapi CMS

Enhancing website speed, flexibility, and marketing autonomy for a future-ready digital platform.

Meilisearch

Goal: Long-term partnership
Length: 1+ year
See it in action: Project's web

Project context

Notum accelerated the Meilisearch website (Lighthouse 65 → 98) , unified content under Strapi, and simplified the marketing team's workflow with a modular editor.

65 / 100

Initial speed

→

98 / 100

Final web speed

About Meilisearch:

Meilisearch is open-sourcelightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that seamlessly integrates into any website.

Trusted by brands like Hugging Face, Louis Vuitton and Bookshop.org, Meilisearch powers exceptional search experiences.

Challenge:

Meilisearch’s website, already powered by Strapi CMS, needed improvements to reach its full potential.

The goals were:

Leverage Strapi’s Full Capabilities: Create a more flexible, functional, and scalable website.
Empower the Marketing Team: Reduce developer reliance.
Migrate from Ghost CMS: Take all content under Strapi.
Future-Proof the Site: Focus on scalability, performance.

Solution:

Over the past few months, Notum has collaborated with Meilisearch on a part-time basis, implementing tailored solutions:

1. Dynamic Page Builder Implementation

Marketing team can edit and rearrange, components without dev support.
Removed hardcoded sections, allowing for more agile updates and iterations.

2. Blog Migration to Strapi

Migrated all blog articles from Ghost CMS to Strapi with zero data loss.
Simplified workflows by taking all content management under Strapi.

3. Performance Optimization

Re-enabled Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)
Fixed crashing builds caused by Next.js misconfigurations.
Improved Lighthouse performance metrics from 65 to 98!

4. UX and Design Improvements

Unified typography and components styles in Figma for consistency.
Aligned component names in Figma and Strapi for smooth collaboration.
Designed brand new blog.

Results:

Page Speed: Lighthouse score from 65 to 98/100, with load times under 1 second.
Marketing Autonomy: Significantly reducing developer reliance.
Stable Builds: Resolved builds, ensuring reliable and efficient deployments.

Collaboration Highlights:

Meilisearch’s dev team focused on their app.
While their agency didn’t specialise in website development.

They brought us in as a hybrid team to bridge the gap.
We worked closely with them, holding regular meetings, building a roadmap from mutual feedback, and mentoring their developers.

At first we started with code reviews, but as trust grew, they handed us full responsibility. The setup stays flexible—they can step in anytime—making it a without a full-time commitment. true “one-team” collaboration.

By focusing on one priority at a time—performance optimization, technical SEO, or UX enhancements we ensure steady progress without a full-time commitment.