Case Study
High-Performance Educational Portal with a Certification System
Client’s Request: "To develop a multifunctional corporate portal for an educational institution that combines a public website, testing system, certificate issuance, and graduate database — with a strong focus on maximum performance, SEO, and marketing efficiency."
Our Solution
We developed and deployed a comprehensive Django-based solution that became the institution's digital hub. Key system components include:
- A high-speed, SEO-optimized website and blog with built-in meta tag analytics, structured data, tree-like categories, and intelligent search with highlighting.
- A fully automated testing system that evaluates assignments, generates and issues personalized digital certificates, and maintains a graduate database with certificate verification by number.
- An integrated marketing engine featuring strategic banners, call-to-action elements, and pop-ups that increase conversion rates for course and masterclass sales.
- Deep technical and marketing optimization: support for light/dark themes, multilingual capability, responsive design, geo- and payment sharding redirects, and reading time and complexity estimation for articles.
Results Achieved
- Expert-Level Performance: According to Google PageSpeed Insights, the portal demonstrates benchmark metrics, ensuring instant loading and perfect interface stability even on mobile devices (LCP: 1.4s, INP: 115ms, CLS: 0, Performance: 96/100).
- Full Automation of the Educational Cycle: From course enrollment to issuing verifiable certificates and adding to the graduate database — all processes operate without manual intervention.
- Maximum Search Visibility: Deep SEO optimization and perfect Core Web Vitals scores (SEO Score: 92/100) secured leading positions in search engine results for target queries.
- Increased Conversion through Marketing Tools: A strategic sales funnel, managed through the admin panel, significantly boosted course and masterclass sales.
Technology Stack
The project was built with a focus on maximum performance, security, and scalability.
- The Python/Django backend was chosen for its robustness and rapid development capabilities, forming a solid foundation for the complex corporate portal and its business logic.
- MariaDB/MySQL provides reliable and performant data storage for all content, user information, and extensive graduate records.
- For the frontend, we used pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Bootstrap to achieve client-side rendering, which was critical for delivering the maximum loading speeds and perfect Core Web Vitals scores required by our performance goals.
- Key functional modules, including the custom testing and certification system, graduate CRM, and e-commerce module, were built as native Django applications for seamless integration and control. Integrations with platforms like Teachable and WordPress LMS extended functionality without compromising the core system's performance.
- The entire infrastructure is deployed on a dedicated server. Nginx handles load balancing and SSL termination, while Cloudflare provides global caching, DDoS protection, and modern TLS encryption, ensuring both security and exceptional delivery speed to end users.