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Website Development

High-performance websites engineered for speed, search visibility, and conversion. Built from scratch to outperform WordPress on every metric that decides whether you get found — and whether the visitor stays.

100
Lighthouse score target
<1s
First Contentful Paint
<100ms
Time to Interactive
Why it matters

Performance isn't optional anymore

Your site is judged every second — by people, by Google's ranking systems, and now by the AI answer engines that decide whether to cite you at all. People leave a page that stalls. Google demotes one that fails Core Web Vitals. And ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews pull from sites with clean structure and fast, factual content — not the ones buried under plugins. A slow website isn't just annoying. It's invisible. We build the opposite: pages that load before the visitor blinks, read clearly to a crawler, and answer the question an AI was asked.

Why not WordPress

43% of the web runs on a tool built for blogs in 2003

WordPress generates HTML on every request by querying a database, then loads dozens of plugins to do it. Even cached, you pay for that on every page. Here's what it costs you.

01

Speed you can measure losing.

Typical WordPress: 2.5–4.5s to first paint, 45–65 Lighthouse, 2.5–4MB per visit. Our static builds: under 0.8s, 95–100, under 500KB. That gap is rankings and conversions, not vanity.

02

An attack surface you maintain forever.

43% of hacked sites are WordPress — database, PHP, and a plugin stack that needs patching every week. Our builds ship no database and no PHP, so there's almost nothing to exploit and almost nothing to patch.

03

Hosting and upkeep that never end.

WordPress needs PHP, MySQL, and caching layers, plus weekly maintenance. Static files need a CDN and a quarterly content pass. The site gets faster to run, not heavier, as it grows.

How we build

Six things every build does by default

  1. 01

    Performance-first architecture

    We generate the site at build time and serve pre-rendered HTML from the edge. No database query on page load, no server-side rendering tax — the page is already done before the visitor arrives.

  2. 02

    Conversion engineering

    Every page is a landing page. Clear hierarchy, fast interaction, and a single obvious next step — built so the speed advantage actually turns into bookings, not just a green Lighthouse score.

  3. 03

    SEO and structured data

    Clean URLs, a single H1, semantic HTML, and JSON-LD schema on every template. Crawlers and AI answer engines read the page the way they expect, so you show up in both.

  4. 04

    Scalable by construction

    Static files on a global CDN scale to any traffic spike without a bigger server. Add a page, add a market, add a language — the architecture does not buckle.

  5. 05

    Maintainable code

    Typed, componentized, version-controlled. No plugin stack to patch every week. Updates are content and features, not emergency security work.

  6. 06

    Content management without the bloat

    A headless CMS your team edits in plain language, decoupled from delivery. Editors get a clean interface; visitors get static speed. Nobody touches PHP.

Search and Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals are a direct ranking factor. We don't chase the score — we build the architecture that produces it, then prove it with Lighthouse on every deploy.

SEO isn't tricks. It's building the site the way search engines and AI answer engines already expect: crawlable URLs, one H1, semantic HTML, JSON-LD schema for rich results, and answers placed where both a person and a model can find them in the first paragraph. Structure first, speed underneath, visibility as the result.

Already have a site? See Performance Engineering →
LCP — Largest Contentful Paint
Target <2.5s · we hit <1.2s
pre-compressed WebP/AVIF, priority loading, critical CSS inlined
INP — Interaction to Next Paint
Target <100ms · we hit <50ms
minimal JavaScript, no render-blocking scripts, lazy non-critical work
CLS — Cumulative Layout Shift
Target <0.1 · we hit <0.05
reserved space for media, font-display swap, no above-fold injection
Structured data
JSON-LD on every template
rich snippets for search, clean context for AI answer engines
Stack and standards

We pick tools for performance, maintainability, and how long they'll last — not because they're trending this quarter.

Static-first by default, with islands of interactivity only where a feature earns them. Typed end to end so the codebase stays readable two years in. The same discipline that keeps a marketing site at 100 Lighthouse is what makes it safe to grow into an application without a rewrite.

Need more than a site? See Cloud Infrastructure →
Frameworks
Astro · React · Next.js
island architecture, zero JS by default, the right tool per surface
Delivery
Global edge CDN
pre-rendered static files, instant deploys, automatic HTTPS
Content
Headless CMS
Sanity, Contentful, or MDX — editing decoupled from delivery
Codebase
TypeScript, end to end
typed, componentized, version-controlled, continuously audited with Lighthouse CI
Get started

Build a website that performs.

Tell us what you're shipping. We'll show you exactly how we hit 95+ Lighthouse, sub-second load, and search visibility built into every page — and what it takes for your project.

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