Ayasofya Hotel
We rebuilt the website of Ayasofya Hotel, a client we have worked with since 2015, from top to bottom. So that a long-standing client never falls behind on technology, we renewed all of its software from design to infrastructure; the site is now far lighter, faster and ready for search engines.
Ayasofya Hotel serves guests with 24 rooms and suites in Sultanahmet and has been a PNZ Medya client since 2015. The old site ran on WordPress, a ready-made theme and Elementor: two separate installations for Turkish and English, a stack of theme and plugin code on every page, and an infrastructure that needed constant maintenance. We rewrote the new version as a static Astro site and put it live on the Entrobase infrastructure; the homepage HTML dropped from 224 KB to 108 KB and Elementor's CSS and JavaScript load is gone entirely. The migration followed a zero-loss principle: 98% of the copy was carried over word for word and verified by measurement, every old URL was kept, and 134 old image URLs were 301-redirected to their new location, so the value built up in search engines over the years stayed in place. The ten room types that used to share a single page each got their own page, the booking calendar was connected directly to the hotel's own reservation engine, and the airport transfer form was rebuilt to calculate the price instantly. We did not leave a site we built years ago as it was; we rewrote it with today's technology: the clearest proof of the care we give our long-standing clients.
More screens from the site
Rewritten from WordPress to Astro
The ready-made theme and Elementor stack were removed; the site is generated statically with Astro, and JavaScript runs only in interactive parts such as the booking calendar, gallery and forms. No more theme and plugin updates or plugin-borne security holes.
Zero-Loss Migration
Every old URL was kept letter for letter, the English site stayed on its subdomain, and 134 old image URLs were 301-redirected to their new location. The 98% content carry-over was measured by comparing old and new pages, not eyeballed.
Room Detail Pages
The ten room types that shared one page were split into separate pages, each with its own gallery, capacity, bed, size and view details and its own booking link. Searches like sea view room can now be targeted directly.
Direct Link to the Reservation Engine
The homepage calendar connects to the hotel's reservation engine with check-in date, nights and guest count. Guests see availability in one click, and the hotel keeps using the system it knows.
Transfer Form That Calculates the Price
Transfer requests from Istanbul and Sabiha Gokcen airports: the amount is calculated instantly from passenger count and one-way or round-trip choice, a details block opens for each passenger, and a 195-country nationality list comes ready.
Structured Data and Multilingual Setup
Turkish and English pages are linked with hreflang; Hotel, HotelRoom, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList structured data were added. The old site had none of them.
“Working with PNZ Medya was a great experience. Our website exceeded our expectations both visually and technically.”
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