Sunny Himachal Travels
A page for every trip, transfer and town — 1.1 KB of JavaScript and Lighthouse 100 on all four desktop scores.
- Client
- Sunny Himachal Travels
- Location
- Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
- Sector
- Travel · Tours & Taxi
- Year
- 2026
- Stack
- Astro · Content collections
- Scope
- 76 route, destination and transfer pages
The brief
A Dharamshala tour operator arrived with a one-page design canvas relying on a 69 KB runtime.
The build
- 0125 tour routes, 28 destinations, 14 transfers, 9 local searches
- 02Build fails if any colour pair drops below WCAG AA
- 03Duplication test rejects near-identical pages
- 04Drafts stay noindex until verified
The result
The notes
- 01
Guardrails
Nothing ships unchecked
A page is a draft until it's marked
verified. Drafts render at their URL for checking, but they'renoindexand left out of the sitemap. Prices have a separate confirmation flag. The build fails if any colour pair drops below WCAG AA. - 02
What we shipped
One page per search
There are 25 tour routes, 28 destinations, 14 point-to-point transfers, 9 local “taxi in <town>” pages, 7 planning guides and a blog, all written as Markdown with typed frontmatter. The link graph is reciprocal: name a region on a trip and the trip appears on the region's page, with no one editing it. The enquiry form writes the WhatsApp message for the traveller, and a sticky bar keeps WhatsApp and Call one tap away on a phone.
- 03
Duplicate content
A build that refuses thin pages
Growing from one page to about a hundred is exactly where travel sites go thin. A build test compares every pair of pages on five-word shingles and fails above 0.23 similarity. The most similar pair on the site scores 0.077. Routes that would have overlapped an existing page were dropped instead of being written thin.
- 04
The lesson
A travel site ranks one page at a time. Someone typing “taxi service in Palampur” wants the Palampur page, not the homepage.
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Questions I get.
Sunny Himachal Travels is a private tour and taxi operator based in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, running customised trips and point-to-point transfers across the state. Divyansh Sood designed and built its website on Astro.
It ships 1.1 KB of JavaScript, gzipped, and scores 100 for performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO in Lighthouse on desktop.
The enquiry form turns the trip details into a pre-written WhatsApp message to the operator. On phones, a sticky bar keeps WhatsApp and Call one tap away.
