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  • Administrative_Fox55

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    May 9, 2026 at 11:03 pm

    I changed my slugs because they were kinda ugly due to accents (é, ã, etc). (auto generated by wix).

    But I also migrated from wix to self hosting a react website.

    I did correct redirects rules in the migration, and most pages transferred authority easily, but some didnt…

    Some blog pages tanked quite a bit. But the site is much faster, am ranking for new key words, and I estimate will take 1-2 or more months to rerank prooerly.

    I knew there was a risk and It has been worth it as I am seeing that the SEO is coming back.

    But in your case I wouldnt do It…

    I only did it because our mobile performance went from 50-60 to 98-99 in Google PSI. So I think that will payoff eventually.

    It was 78-80 mobile performance at maximum on wix with simple pages having no animations…