    Professional services 

A year of traffic arrives in three weeks. Be ready for it.

Deadline spikesClient portalsResource downloads

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The speed brief

Who arrives

A business owner who has just remembered a deadline

What they want

Services, credentials, and a way to book a call

How long you get

Short, and concentrated into a few weeks a year

5–15ms cached what xSpeed serves instead of PHP

The story

Marcus runs a six-person accounting practice. His website is quiet for ten months of the year and then, in the run-up to filing season, does more traffic in a fortnight than the previous two quarters combined — all of it people who have just realised they need help and are choosing fast.

The first year, the site slowed to a crawl in exactly that fortnight. Not down, just slow enough that the booking page took eight seconds, which for someone already avoiding the task is permission to close the tab.

Now the whole public site serves as static HTML, the guides and calculators are prewarmed before the season starts, and the client portal is excluded so logged-in clients always see live data. The spike still happens. It just stopped being visible.

When speed decides the outcome

Three beats. Everything xSpeed Cache does on this page is aimed at the gap between the second and the third.

The deadline

A filing date approaches and everyone remembers it in the same fortnight.

The spike

A year of steady traffic arrives across three weeks. Hosting notices.

The call

They book with whoever made booking easy while they still had the nerve.

What a site like this actually needs

Not a redesign — three properties the site has to have before anything else matters.

Headroom for the seasonal spike

Capacity is only a problem for a few weeks a year — and those are the weeks the entire year’s new business is decided.

A client portal that stays live

Logged-in areas must never be cached. The public site should be, and the two have to coexist cleanly.

Downloadable resources that arrive fast

Guides and checklists are the lead magnet. A slow download page wastes the ad spend that brought them.

The xSpeed features doing the work

Each one is a real setting with a real guide — nothing here is a marketing abstraction.

Page cache with prewarming

Serve the public site as static HTML and rebuild it on a schedule, so the deadline-season spike lands on warm pages.

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Exclude the client portal

Cookie-based rules keep logged-in client areas fully dynamic while everything public stays cached.

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Scheduled database cleanup

Form submissions, sessions, and transients accumulate all year; a scheduled sweep keeps queries fast into the busy period.

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The exact prompt

Connect your site via xSpeed MCP or xSpeed Hub, then paste this into Claude or ChatGPT. It is written for this business, not a generic template.

COPY & PASTE

Using xSpeed, get my accounting practice site ready for filing season. Benchmark it now, enable page caching with the preloader, and schedule prewarming so our services and guide pages are always warm. Exclude the client portal and any logged-in area from caching. Schedule a monthly database cleanup. Then re-benchmark and tell me what our headroom looks like.

What happens: Your AI configures caching and prewarming, confirms the portal is excluded, and reports the new response times before the season starts.

Questions from Accountants & bookkeepers

Yes — logged-in requests bypass the page cache by default, and you can add specific cookies or URLs to the exclusion rules for anything custom. Clients always see live data; anonymous visitors get the fast static version.

A cached page is served as a file without running PHP or touching the database, so the same server handles many times the concurrent visitors. Prewarming before the season means the spike arrives on pages that are already built rather than building them under load.

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