The VAT People - Headless Website

Case Study

The VAT People is a leading customs duty & VAT consultant based in the UK, providing VAT advice and services for accountants & businesses.

96 - Best Practices Score

The Challenge

The VAT People

After driving sustained growth through their old website, in January of 2023, The VAT People commissioned I-COM to build a new performance, mobile-first, scalable and easy to maintain website that grows with their business and creates a competitive advantage. 

The Approach

The VAT People

Prismic enables teams to deliver brand consistent, modular website projects for Designers, Developers and Content Creators, across B2B & B2C sectors. 

The benefits for Marketers are: 

  • Iterate & launch pages seamlessly 
  • Brand consistency 
  • SEO ready pages

For Developers:

  • Less maintenance time 
  • Fast API & efficient SDK
  • Slices 

The Results

The VAT People

Overall, the Headless website has supported improvements in performance from all digital marketing channels, a step-change especially noticeable in SEO. 

Measuring pre & post website launch, The VAT People saw a: 

  • +14% Increase in sessions
  • +16% Increase in clicks
  • +27% Increase in Key event conversions 

The new website Passed Core Web VItals with a significant improvement in Lighthouse Score of 68. 

94
Accessibility Score
96
Best Practises Score
100
SEO Score

We’ve been working with I-COM for over six years, which shows that we’re happy with the work that’s being done and that we’re getting the right results. Through the work I-COM have done for us, they have increased the quality of leads and enquiries we get from potential clients, which means we’ve got a much greater chance of securing new business. We love working with I-COM because it’s minimum fuss, good value for money, they are lovely people to deal with and they deliver great results.

David Miller, Director at The VAT People

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