About WebDone
You spent money on a website.Google still doesn't know you exist.
Most small business owners I've worked with had the same experience. Site built. Money spent. Traffic? Nowhere. Leads? Zero. The site went live — but nobody checked the foundation.
Nobody told you the foundation was broken from day one.
No commitment needed — just a quick, friendly chat.
100+
Secured & Hacked Sites Fixed
Malware Removed · Sites Hardened
Upwork · Google
26 + 7 Verified Reviews
12+
Countries Served
15+ Years in Web Development
Where This Started
I grew up far from computers.That's exactly why I understand them.
I’m Darshak Vaghela, from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. My grandfather farmed land. My father sold vegetables at the market, then earned a government agriculture job — transferred between cities constantly, leaving before sunrise, returning after dark. I watched that life and decided early: I won’t trade my time for a salary and a transfer order.
But I had no computer at home. My class had 70 students. Once a month, 35 of us would go for computer practical — 3 students to one PC. That was my only access. I visited a cyber café every few months and forgot my email ID between visits. That’s how far behind I was.
I missed the merit cutoff for computer science college by 2 marks. Applied to a university 3 hours away — missed again by 2 marks. Extra seats opened. I travelled 3 hours and confirmed admission. I ended up with better resources than the college that had rejected me.
After graduation, I moved to Bengaluru — India’s IT hub. Day shifts, night shifts, back to back. I learned fast, earned steadily, and built my first freelance clients on the side through Elance and oDesk. By 2015, I had seen enough of the corporate cycle. I quit. Went full-time freelance. That decision changed everything.
Somewhere between the farm and the deadline — where it all started.
The Journey
From a cyber café every 3 months to fixing sites across 12+ countries.
Post-grad internship & first IT job
Graduation. Entered the industry full-time
First Elance/oDesk project. WordPress begins
Done with Bengaluru IT hub — day & night shifts. Quit. Went full-time freelance.
WebDone launched. Offline premises set up
Sciatica. Disc bulge. Covid. Sleep gone. First-time parenthood around the corner — joy and fear, both at once.
COVID second wave. India at a standstill. WebDone took the hit.
Ancestral property disputes. Lawyers, court, back and forth. No time left for WebDone.
Decided to build a core team again. WebDone reviving.
Fresh start. New concept — Performance. This time, built right.
Every website has 8 layers.Most have the bottom ones broken.
Here's what your website's foundation looks like — and why fixing the top without fixing the bottom never works.
This is the foundation. If it's broken, nothing above it matters — users leave in under 3 seconds. Google doesn't wait either.
Speed brings people in. Broken UX sends them straight back out. A confused visitor is a lost client — before they even read a word.
Even great copy becomes invisible on a site with bad UX. If no one stays long enough to read, the words don't matter.
Traffic without conversion is just noise. This layer turns the visitors who do stay into actual enquiries and sales.
Google rewards speed and UX first. Most site owners chase SEO without fixing the bottom layers — and wonder why rankings don't move.
Without data, everything is a guess. You can't fix what you can't measure. Most site owners have no idea what's actually happening on their site.
A website isn't a one-time project. Sites that grow are improved continuously — small data-driven changes that compound over time.
Built right from the foundation, your site handles more traffic, more pages, more campaigns — without slowing or breaking under pressure.
Layer 01 is broken in most WordPress sites I diagnose. Fix the foundation first — every layer above it depends on it. That's always where we start.
Now you know what the foundation looks like.
See what's actually broken in real WordPress sites ↓The Pattern
Every slow WordPress site tells the same story.
I've diagnosed WordPress sites for clients in the US, Australia, and Canada. The root causes repeat without fail — different businesses, same broken foundation.
Page builder slowing the core
Elementor, Divi, WPBakery — hundreds of scripts on every page load, used or not.
Images at full original size
No compression, no WebP, no lazy load. A 4MB hero image on mobile 4G.
Security gaps left open
Default admin URL, outdated plugins, no firewall. Hackers find these before Google does.
Shared hosting under pressure
Your site shares resources with 500 others. On traffic spikes, it goes down first.
No caching, no CDN
Every request hits the database fresh. Same HTML rebuilt from scratch for every visitor.
Too many plugin dependencies
A plugin for every small task — contact form, slider, social icons, cookie notice. Each one adds weight, potential conflicts, and another entry point for attackers. Most of it could be handled with a few lines of code.
Wrong hosting for the wrong site
A high-traffic WooCommerce store squeezed onto shared hosting — crashing under load. A simple 5-page brochure site sitting on an expensive VPS — paying for power it will never use. Hosting choice is rarely matched to actual site needs.
Broken email setup no one notices
Free SMTP with daily send limits, frequent delivery failures, and emails landing in spam. No SPF, DKIM, or DMARC records configured — so inbox providers don't trust the sender. Contact forms submit successfully but the message never arrives.
Google Page Speed: red. Traffic: flat. Leads: zero. The business owner paid for a website. Nobody fixed the foundation. That's what WebDone exists to fix.
You've seen the 8-layer pattern. Here's where it started.
Day one of college. Our principal walked in — aggressive, no-nonsense. He went row by row and asked every student to recite the Gujarati alphabet. Pre-school level. Everyone failed. The room went silent.
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You ignored the basics. Now the basics are ignoring you back.
None of us were native English speakers. Nobody knew it. But he knew something we didn’t — that we’d all end up in big companies one day, and English would be the bridge. The only way to connect. He wasn’t being harsh. He was preparing us for what was coming.
That Gujarati alphabets incident on the first day of college never left me. Every student’s solution was the same — the moment someone spotted the principal doing his rounds on the ground floor, word spread fast. Everyone knew he’d be heading up to the first floor next. So they’d disappear into the bathroom and wait it out. Avoid the moment. Escape the discomfort.
I chose not to run. I stayed. Made the effort — however it came out. That’s when I understood: The core you ignore doesn’t disappear. It waits. And it always comes back — louder. Face it. Fix it. Everything else follows.
The Developer Side
It’s exactly what I see most developers doing with broken websites. Adding plugins. Running. Never fixing the foundation.
The Client Side
But sometimes it’s not even the developer’s fault. Clients come in wanting to spend less on the website and more on marketing. The company or agency may know the full solution but can’t deliver it within the budget. So the project launches half-fixed, stays in a struggling phase, and the client wonders why the marketing isn’t working. The foundation was never solid to begin with.
How We Work
Root causes. Not symptoms.
Most agencies add more plugins on top of a broken foundation. We go the other direction — strip back what’s broken, fix the core layer by layer, and build performance that lasts.
We chose WordPress deliberately. Flexible, open-source, full control — no subscriptions, no vendor lock-in. But third-party builders and bloated themes break that core. Our job is to give it back.
We work with small business owners in the US, Australia, and Canada who are serious about results — people who don’t want to learn server configs, they just want their site to work and bring in clients. That’s the only goal.
The Hard Lesson
Control is everything.
In 2015, Upwork acquired Elance and oDesk — two platforms where I had built my reputation over years of work. The profiles didn't migrate. My reviews, my history, my credibility — gone overnight. I had no choice but to start from zero on a brand new Upwork profile. I had built my business on someone else's platform. Someone else made the decision. I paid the price.
"Don't build your business on a platform someone else controls."
That's why my 2026 goal is platform independence — so no acquisition, no pricing change, no policy update can take what I've built.
This is exactly why, when small business owners ask me which platform to use for their website — my answer is always WordPress. Not because it's trendy. Because it gives you full ownership.
WordPress — You own it
Open-source. No subscription. No vendor lock-in. Powers 43% of the web. Move hosts, change agencies, export everything — your site is yours.
Shopify, Squarespace, Wix — You rent it
Subscription-based. Pricing can change. Migration is painful — your content, design, and SEO history don't travel cleanly. If the platform changes the rules, you're stuck.
I learned this the hard way. You don't have to.
The Team
Small team. Deep specialisation.
Ankit Prajapati
SEO Specialist
Never works without his diary. Active Google community member. Google has personally invited him to events.
Darshak Vaghela
Root Cause Thinker · Website Performance
Full-time freelance since 2015. 56 Upwork projects. Focused entirely on site speed, Core Web Vitals, and measurable results.
LinkedIn
Ayog Rai
Security · AWS · DevOps
Server hardening, cloud infra, application security. If it's not fully explored, there's no peace of mind.
Verified Feedback
From the Projects We've Delivered
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Communicates well and explains issues in non tech speak. Top person to work with.
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He was very clear and wrote out everything before he did it. Came up with ideas and suggestions before we tried them. Overall a great communicator — I would recommend him to anyone.
Verified Reviews
What Our Clients Say on Google
I have trusted iWebDone with numerous business websites and remain impressed with their great communication, support and partnership. I consider them an essential part of our team and have recommended them to numerous o…
Once again Darshak came through. With very short notice late in his Friday night, Darshak provided exactly the help needed. He is efficient, thorough, careful, and a consummate professional. I highly regard his servic…
Darshak and the team are professional, polite, and do excellent web development work. Will be back for my website needs again. Thank you
Beyond Work
Give back. Every year.
On our wedding anniversary, instead of a dinner, we spent the evening with the children of Sabarmati Ashram. Over 100 kids — energy, joy, hands up. A reminder that the work we do is only meaningful if it connects to something bigger than a project deadline.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Things people ask after reading our story.
Are you a one-person agency or a real team?
WebDone has a core team of three — Darshak (WordPress strategy & development), Ankit (SEO & technical performance), and Ayog (application security, AWS & DevOps). Beyond the core, we also have a local on-ground team and a wider remote network of specialists we bring in based on project needs. Most of what you experience day-to-day comes from the three of us directly.
Where are you based and which countries do you work with?
We’re based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and have worked with clients across 12+ countries — UK, USA, Canada, Australia, UAE, and more. We schedule calls flexibly to match your time zone and communicate via WhatsApp, email, and video call.
How long have you been doing WordPress work?
Since 2011. Darshak began freelancing on Elance and oDesk while working in Bengaluru’s IT sector, quit full-time employment in 2015 to go fully independent, and launched WebDone in 2019. The methodology has been refined through 100+ real client projects with a 5.0★ Upwork rating. You can cross-verify directly — Upwork Profile and Google Business listing.
Do you only fix existing sites or can you build new ones too?
Both. We offer two core services — Website Performance Optimization (fixing and speeding up sites that already exist) and Website Rebuild (building from scratch on a clean, fast, secure foundation). If your current site is beyond repair, we’ll say so honestly rather than patch something broken.
Why do you only work with WordPress and not Webflow, Squarespace, or other platforms?
Control is everything. With subscription platforms, you pay continuously to keep your site alive — stop paying, lose access. With WordPress, you own the software, the files, and the database. Your digital property stays fully in your control, managed on your terms, no one can take it away. We’ve also spent 15+ years mastering WordPress internals — caching layers, server configuration, plugin architecture, security hardening. Depth beats breadth.
How do I know I can trust someone I've never met in person?
Start with evidence — 56 completed Upwork projects, 26 written reviews, 5.0★ rating from clients across UK, USA, Australia, Canada, and UAE. Then look at how we handle money: we never ask for 100% payment upfront. Work is split into phases with milestone-based payments. Funds go through Upwork’s escrow system or PayPal — held safely until the work is delivered. For small fixes under $300, we apply the fix first — you pay only after it’s working on your site. And if you want to go further — some of our clients have been with us for years. They’re real people who’ve seen how we work, how we communicate, and how we handle problems honestly. We can connect you with them directly if you’d like a reference before you decide.
What kind of clients are NOT the right fit for WebDone?
We’re not the right fit if you want the cheapest possible option, need a site in 48 hours with no process, or plan to revise every section ten times. We work best with business owners who treat their website as infrastructure — not decoration — and want it built to last.
Ready to fix the foundation?
Tell us about your site.We'll tell you what's broken.
No jargon. No upsell. Just a clear picture of the root causes and what it'll take to fix them.