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Google Tag Manager and GA4 Tracking Audit Checklist

Use this practical GTM and GA4 audit checklist to find duplicate events, missing conversions, consent problems and unreliable advertising data.

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A/B Testing for React and Headless Websites

Learn how to run dependable A/B tests on React and headless websites without introducing flicker, broken analytics or unnecessary performance costs.

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How to Preserve Analytics During a Website Migration

A step-by-step plan for protecting analytics, conversions, campaign attribution and reporting before, during and after a website migration.

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A Performance-First Rebuild: perk.com on Astro

Perk migrated perk.com from Next.js to Astro to improve Core Web Vitals, clear technical debt, and ship a faster marketing platform in 13 weeks.

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Unifying Perk's Digital Presence

Perk consolidated fragmented acquired-brand websites, legacy content, redirects, localization, and tracking into one scalable perk.com presence.

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Dataiera: AI-powered travel app and concierge for a seamless trip.

Travellers today are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of options available when planning trips. Dataiera solves this by proving an AI concierge for travel, integrated into flight and other travel aggregators, hotel bookings as well as sights, museum, restaurants and other POIs at travel stops.

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Next.js vs. Astro in 2025: Which Framework Is Best for Your Marketing Website?

Astro and Next.js both shine for marketing sites in 2024—but which fits your needs? Explore their performance, SEO strengths, integration options, and costs. From Astro’s ultra-fast static builds to Next.js’ dynamic React power and AI features, find the perfect framework for your project.

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Best Practices for Token Sale Websites: Security, UX, and Scalability

Protect your token sale website from cyber threats with our comprehensive guide. Learn how to secure your site with strong defenses, meet legal and accessibility requirements, ensure a smooth investor experience, and respond swiftly to incidents for a successful, trustworthy launch.

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Acquis: Re-launching the Web Presence of a Leading Consultancy

Acquis is a global consulting firm that has built its reputation on a simple but powerful idea: putting people at the center of every solution. They partner with ambitious leaders to design strategies, build effective organizations, and leverage technology to drive sustainable growth. The goal was to create a digital experience that was as thoughtful, strategic, and impactful as the consulting work they deliver.

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What is a JamStack website and is it relevant in 2025

Discover Jamstack, the modern web architecture combining pre-rendered static pages, reusable APIs, and CDN delivery for faster, secure, and scalable sites. Explore its benefits, tools, eco-friendly edge computing, accessibility tips, 2025 SEO trends, and legacy migration strategies.

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The Definitive Guide on Website Migrations

Planning a website migration? This comprehensive guide covers everything—from types of migrations and SEO risks to detailed planning, execution, and post-launch monitoring. Learn how to preserve structured data, boost Core Web Vitals, handle multilingual sites, large e-commerce catalogs, and stay compliant with privacy laws. Ensure a smooth transition that enhances user experience and search rankings.

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Astro vs NextJS for Marketing Websites

Astro and Next.js each shine in different scenarios: Astro excels at ultra-fast, content-focused static sites with minimal JavaScript, while Next.js powers dynamic, interactive apps with server-side rendering and edge features. Discover which fits your project best.

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Why Startups Are Ditching WordPress: A Look at Headless CMS in 2025

By reading this, you'll understand what a headless CMS is, why it's attracting fast-moving startups, and which emerging trends will shape your content strategy in 2025 and beyond.

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Choosing Between Storyblok and WordPress: A Comprehensive Guide

By reading this article, you’ll learn how traditional and headless CMSs differ, what each platform offers in terms of editing, performance, security and community, and which one aligns best with your project goals. You’ll also discover practical tips on migration, SEO tactics, accessibility compliance and real-world success stories.

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MeisterTask: A Faster Next.js Website

We rebuilt MeisterTask’s marketing website with Next.js and Storyblok, improving performance, Core Web Vitals and content flexibility for its marketing team.

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Regulation Asia: Launching a subscribers-only financial news site

Regulation Asia is a successful financial news site on a creaking old Wordpress installation. Makers’ Den re-created it from scratch on top of NextJS and Storyblok.

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Fido: Trash Valet for Property Managers

Fido operates a trash valet service for vacation rental property managers. Turns out pushing bins to the curb and back in again on the right days at scale is a tremendous logistical undertaking.

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Y-tu: B2B Solar Installations in Spain

The Swiss Solar Tech company, Youdera, wanted to launch Y-tu, a forward-thinking Spain based Solar Panel installation company, and set out to revolutionize the B2B photovoltaics space by automating the estimates, funding and allowing the customer full flexibility in specifying their installation self-serve.

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The Role of React.js in Modern E-commerce: Faster, Smarter, Better

E-commerce has come a long way from clunky online stores that took forever to load. In today’s digital landscape, speed, user experience, and scalability define success. If your online store isn’t fast, intuitive, and optimized, you’re losing customers—probably to a competitor who understands this better.

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React vs. Next.js: Which One is Right for Your Web App?

Choosing the right framework for your web application can feel like picking between two excellent but slightly different tools. If you’re planning to build a web app, chances are you've come across React and Next.js. Both are popular, both are powerful, and both can help you build amazing applications. But which one is the right choice for your project?

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Empowering Electrochemical Analysis with a Smarter, Sleeker Web App

SIVONIC designs cutting-edge impedance spectrometers for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), with their flagship EIS meter controlled through a built-in desktop interface and a browser-based application. Their technology delivers precision and power—but the user interface lagged behind. They partnered with us to give their web app the same high-performance edge their hardware provides: modern, responsive, intuitive, and ready for the demands of today’s scientific workflows.

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Building Scalable Web Apps with Next.js: A CTO’s Guide

Scalability is no longer optional—it’s the make-or-break factor for modern web apps. In this guide, we’ll show CTOs how to leverage the flexibility and performance of Next.js to build apps that scale smoothly with user growth, evolving requirements, and business goals.

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Composable Commerce: The Future of Scalable and Flexible E-Commerce

Understanding Composable Commerce: Why It Matters for Modern Online Retail Discover how composable commerce is reshaping e-commerce by enabling businesses to build scalable, flexible, and high-performing digital storefronts.

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Google Tag Manager for Google Ads and Meta Ads

A practical guide to reliable conversion tracking with GTM, GA4, Google Ads and Meta across React, headless and conventional websites.

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A Primer on GTM and GA

What is GTM (Google Tag Manager) and GA (Google Analytics)? What tasks does each have and how are they related?

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Top Tips for a Seamless Content Migration to Storyblok

Switching from a traditional content management system (CMS) like WordPress to a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly platform like Storyblok can be challenging, but the benefits are undeniable. At Makers' Den, we're committed to helping our clients make a smooth transition from WordPress to Storyblok. In this article, we'll share our top tips for a seamless content migration process, ensuring that you can take full advantage of this innovative headless CMS.

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The speed advantage: Why Storyblok and Jamstack are the perfect match to ace your core web vitals

Web performance is a crucial factor for website owners and developers as it directly affects the user experience of their visitors. In recent years, the rise of the Jamstack architecture has provided an efficient way to build fast websites that rank high in SERP. Storyblok is a headless CMS that is built to work with Jamstack, providing the speed advantage necessary to ace your site’s Core Web Vitals metrics. In this article, we will try to provide a high-level overview of the benefits of using Storyblok to get better Core Web Vitals in Jamstack architecture. But first, let’s quickly go over the basics.

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A look at Google Core Web Vitals

Google's Core Web Vitals are an SEO ranking factor that is increasing in importance. We know how to please Google's black box.

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KitaExpert - ending preschool struggles

Finding a Kindergarten spot in Berlin is hard. So obviously we built a JAMStack app to help with this.

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A sectional website builder with Prismic.io, React and Gatsby.JS

I’ll show you how Makers’ Den created a custom sectional website builder for Friday.de using Prismic.io, ReactJs and Gatsby.js.

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Why JAMStack

JAMStack (Javascript, Apis and Markup) is synonymous with web apps that have no runtime backends components, except lightweight API dependencies.

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