
CASE STUDY
400+ Backlinks & 138% Site Speed Increase
for Top Nicaraguan Retreat Center
How Backlinks and Site speed increased digital performance
Costa Dulce, the leading surf & yoga retreat in Nicaragua partnered, with Clearlight Studios to improve their website performance and online visibility.
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Failing PageSpeed scores on both mobile and desktop
Low domain authority reducing organic visibility
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Technical SEO and PageSpeed optimization (minification, image compression, caching, lazy loading)
Backlink campaign to boost DA
SEO audit and clean-up of site bloat
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In just 30 days, Clearlight Studios helped the retreat center:
Increase mobile site speed by 138%
Achieve a desktop speed score of 92
Build 469 high-quality backlinks
Grow domain authority from 24 to 28
This sprint gave them a faster, more discoverable website — and a powerful technical foundation for future content and SEO success.
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“Chiara's actionable insights helped our company formalize a strategy for success and we're already seeing the significant benefits of her work after mere weeks of working together. From strategic planning to providing trusted feedback about optimizing our business, she was able to do it all. We can't recommend her highly enough!”
- Dr. Erik Reis, The Neural Connection
The Clients have Spoken
