Nallian

Numinam rebuilt the Nallian website — a Belgian B2B SaaS company whose air cargo software runs hubs like Brussels Airport and Singapore Changi — replacing a legacy Joomla install with a custom Laravel, Filament and Livewire platform that loads in under a second and scores 95 on Google Lighthouse. Their website, stuck on a legacy Joomla install, no longer reflected that. I rebuilt it from scratch as a custom platform on Laravel, Filament and Livewire — one that loads in under a second, scores 95 on Google Lighthouse, and gives the marketing team full editorial autonomy.

Why a B2B SaaS website rebuild was needed

Nallian's solutions are trusted by hubs like Brussels Airport, Singapore Changi and Amsterdam Schiphol. But their old Joomla site, built with the YOOtheme builder, felt heavy, generic and dated. It scored 61 out of 100 on Google Lighthouse — a real commercial liability in a competitive niche where prospects judge a vendor in the first few seconds on the homepage.

The legacy stack was the root of the problem. Joomla paired with the YOOtheme builder produced a heavy, generic page that loaded slowly and looked like any other templated SaaS site — exactly the wrong first impression for a company whose software runs critical operations at major air cargo hubs. A Lighthouse score of 61 out of 100 is not just a technical number: in a competitive niche, slow first paint and a dated look quietly cost credibility before a prospect ever reads the value proposition.

The brief was clear on three points: the site had to finally look like the company, it had to be measurably fast even on unstable airport WiFi, and the marketing team had to be in full control — no agency call needed for every update.

Custom Laravel website development with a bespoke CMS

No template, no page builder. Every section was designed specifically for Nallian and validated section by section before a single line of code was written. The platform was then built around three priorities:

• A custom design that reflects Nallian's positioning in the air cargo software landscape, not a reskinned SaaS template;

• Speed treated as a competitive advantage: sub-second loading on mobile and desktop, a Lighthouse score raised from 61 to 95;

• A bespoke admin with a library of pre-built sections, preview before publishing, scheduled publishing and one-click version rollback on every page;

• Automated content migration from the old Joomla install — articles, press releases, events and customer stories moved over without copy-paste or broken links.

Choosing Laravel, Filament and Livewire was a deliberate bet on maintainability. With zero third-party plugins, there is nothing to fall out of date and no plugin conflicts to debug — the whole site is one codebase the team owns. Filament and Livewire turn that codebase into a bespoke admin where marketing works from a library of pre-built sections, previews a page before it goes live, schedules publishing and rolls back any page in one click. That is what full editorial autonomy means in practice: experimenting on the live site stops being risky.

The automated migration followed the same logic. Articles, press releases, events and customer stories were moved over from the old Joomla install programmatically — no copy-paste, no broken links — so years of content history carried into the new platform intact.

AI was used honestly: to accelerate technical, internal and structured work, never to replace the strategy, design and copywriting that make a custom website actually custom.

Website performance results: sub-second load, Lighthouse 95

Delivered on schedule on June 3, 2026, on a modern, maintainable stack with zero third-party plugins. The homepage now scores 95 on Google Lighthouse, loads in under a second, and the Nallian team publishes, updates and experiments freely without ever risking the live site.

The numbers translate directly into business value. Going from a Lighthouse score of 61 to 95 and a sub-second load on both mobile and desktop means the homepage holds up even on the unstable airport WiFi the brief called out — so the first few seconds work in Nallian's favour rather than against it. And because the team can publish and experiment freely without ever risking the live site, marketing no longer waits on an agency, shortening the path from idea to published page.

As their Director of Marketing put it: the new website is "more Nallian" — a company finally recognizable in a crowded category.

Frequently asked questions

Why rebuild the site instead of redesigning the existing Joomla install?

The legacy stack was the bottleneck. The old site ran on Joomla with the YOOtheme builder and scored only 61 out of 100 on Google Lighthouse — heavy, generic and slow. A redesign on the same foundation would have kept those constraints, so the site was rebuilt from scratch as a custom Laravel, Filament and Livewire platform with zero third-party plugins.

What performance gains were achieved?

The homepage Lighthouse score was raised from 61 to 95, and the site now loads in under a second on both mobile and desktop — fast enough to hold up on the unstable airport WiFi the brief specifically called out.

What technology stack was used?

The platform was built on Laravel, Filament and Livewire, with no template, no page builder and zero third-party plugins. That makes it a single, maintainable codebase the Nallian team fully owns.

Can the marketing team update the site without a developer?

Yes. The bespoke CMS gives the marketing team full editorial autonomy through a library of pre-built sections, preview before publishing, scheduled publishing and one-click version rollback on every page — so they can publish, update and experiment without ever risking the live site.