Same site, same look, dramatically faster. No redesign needed.
Paddock Spares have been supplying Land Rover parts since 1975. As one of the UK's largest independent retailers of Land Rover spares and accessories, with a catalogue running to tens of thousands of parts, a trade site, and international shipping powered by Global-E, their Magento store does serious heavy lifting.
Their existing theme wasn't old, so a full redesign wasn't on the table. What they needed was the performance benefits of Hyvä without the cost and time of starting from scratch. That's exactly what our Retrofit approach delivers.
The retrofit approach
A Hyvä Retrofit decouples the frontend performance work from any redesign. We take an existing Luma theme and rebuild it in Hyvä, matching the look and feel customers already know, while replacing the heavy Luma and Knockout.js frontend with Hyvä's lightweight Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS stack.
For customers, nothing changes visually. For the business, the improvement is immediate. Core Web Vitals lift, page load times drop, and Google's assessment of the site changes fast. There's no customer disruption, no retraining of the team, and no lengthy redesign cycle.
For a site the scale of Paddock Spares, with a vast catalogue of OEM and aftermarket Land Rover parts, international shipping integrations and a separate trade platform, keeping disruption to an absolute minimum was essential. The Retrofit approach was the right fit.
The results
Paddock Spares now passes Google's Core Web Vitals assessment on mobile, with scores that reflect a dramatically faster and more stable experience than the Luma theme could deliver.
The trust customers place in Paddock Spares is well established, over 36,000 Trustpilot reviews at 4.7 stars doesn't happen by accident. A faster, more responsive site reinforces that trust at every interaction. An LCP of 1.4s and INP of 118ms on mobile means pages load quickly and respond to taps without hesitation.
All of this was achieved without touching the design, the catalogue, the integrations, or asking a single customer to adapt to anything new.