taskrhino.ca: from WordPress to Astro, edited with Markstage

taskrhino.ca is the services site and blog of Space-O Technologies, and the first site Markstage was built for. It moved off WordPress to a static Astro site in October 2026, and its writers now edit it with Markstage, on the real page.

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The old taskrhino.ca home page on WordPress at 1440 pixels wide: the heading monday.com Consulting Services, two buttons and a collage of monday.com board pictures — Before: WordPress

The new taskrhino.ca home page on Astro at 1440 pixels wide: a side rail with the menu, theme switch and the page's contents, the same heading and text, two buttons and a cover picture — After: Astro, edited with Markstage

Speed score, home page on a phone: from 71 to 99
Main content shown (LCP), on a phone: from 6.8 s to 2.2 s
Home page weight, on a phone: from 902 KB to 206 KB
Files loaded, home page on a phone: from 45 to 19

What moved

158 posts, 20 pages and 2,414 images and files came across from WordPress, with every address kept and the search titles and descriptions carried over. After the move, all 179 addresses of the old site answered.
Posts are Markdown files and pages are JSON files in the site's git repo. There is no content database.
The live site is static. Markstage is only there while someone edits; the pages visitors get are plain HTML, CSS and pictures.

How the writers work now

Writers open a page in Markstage and change it where it appears, on the site's own design. Each save is a commit in their name, and changes go live through releases, with roles for who may publish what, and staging next to production. The services pages, which are JSON, are edited on the rendered page too, with each section's fields in a side panel.

The numbers

Lighthouse, median of three runs, measured on 28 and 29 October 2026. The old site was measured live; the new site was measured from its build served on our own computer, so its load times are not those of a real host.

Page	Form	Before: speed	After: speed	Before: weight	After: weight	Before: files	After: files
Home	phone	71	99	902 KB	206 KB	45	19
Home	desktop	98	100	1067 KB	173 KB	53	19
Contact	phone	72	100	798 KB	140 KB	44	16
A services page	phone	70	99	877 KB	192 KB	46	20
A blog post	phone	66	99	781 KB	149 KB	33	18

Accessibility scored 100 on every page measured after the move, against 87 to 96 before.

What the screenshots are

All screenshots on this page were taken on 28 and 29 October 2026, before the new site went live: the old one from the live WordPress site, read only, and the new one from its own build. The live site has changed since, as sites do.

The old WordPress home page on a phone, 390 pixels wide — Before, on a phone

The new Astro home page on a phone, 390 pixels wide — After, on a phone

The new home page in its dark theme at 1440 pixels wide — After, dark theme

Get it on GitHub Why we built Markstage

Space-O Technologies made Markstage. Built a site with it? Tell us at rp@spaceo.ca