No magic - just our painstaking joint work on the site

About the customer
The project came to us in September 2020. What did we have at the start?
- Old site with very poor design, not adaptive
- Traffic - 22 users (in October 2020). Distribution: 18 - by typing the site address manually (direct transition), 3 - from the search and 2 - through links on other sites.
- Applications from the search (through the site) - up to 1-2 per month.
- Positions in the search engine - 2% in the TOP-10
- The content of the site was minimal: only short abstract texts.