News Publisher Migrates to Astro and Jahia for 3x Faster Pages

Beacon Media's monolithic CMS was delivering Core Web Vitals scores in the bottom quartile. LCP averaged 4.8 seconds and each deployment took 45 minutes, making breaking-news workflows unworkable.

Editorial workflow moved to Jahia as the content hub; the public site was rebuilt in Astro with island architecture. Static generation handles evergreen content while Jahia's GraphQL API feeds live breaking-news components via Cloudflare edge caching.

LCP improved from 4.8s to 1.2s. Build times dropped from 45 minutes to under 90 seconds for content-only updates. Ad revenue per session increased 22% due to improved engagement metrics.