Performance optimisation
Make your web app fast again.
Slow pages cost you visitors, sales and search rankings. We measure where the time goes, fix the biggest problems first, and show you the numbers before and after.
Signs it's time.
- — Pages take seconds to load, especially on mobile
- — Your Lighthouse or Core Web Vitals scores are in the red
- — The app slows down as your data or traffic grows
- — Hosting costs keep rising just to keep up
- — Some pages or reports time out altogether
What we optimise.
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Measurement first
Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals and server-side profiling to find where the time actually goes.
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Front-end performance
Smaller images and bundles, fewer render-blocking resources and a faster largest contentful paint.
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Database tuning
Missing indexes, N+1 queries and slow reports found and fixed.
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Caching
The right things cached in the right places, from HTTP caching to fragments of pages.
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Background jobs
Slow work like emails, exports and calls to other services moved out of the request.
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Ongoing monitoring
Performance tracked over time, so slowdowns get caught early.
How fast is your site?
Run our free page check to see your performance, accessibility, best practice and SEO scores in about a minute.
Run a free page checkHow we work.
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Measure
We record where your app stands today, on real pages and real data.
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Prioritise
We list the problems by impact and effort, and agree with you which to tackle first.
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Fix
We make the changes, starting with the biggest wins.
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Verify
We measure again and show you the difference, so you know what the work achieved.
Frequently asked questions.
Will this improve our search rankings?
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Page speed and Core Web Vitals are part of how Google ranks pages, so faster pages can help, but they're one factor among many. The more reliable win is that more visitors stay long enough to buy or get in touch.
Can you guarantee a Lighthouse score?
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No one honestly can, because some causes, like third-party scripts your site depends on, may be outside anyone's control. We'll tell you upfront what we think is achievable, and show you the results.
Does my site need to be built with Rails?
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No. Front-end performance work applies to any website. For server and database work, Rails is our specialism.
How do we know where to start?
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Run our free page check on your site. It takes about a minute and shows your scores and the main issues holding the page back.
Other ways we can help.
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Ruby on Rails development
New Rails apps, new features and upgrades, built to be easy to hand over.
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MVP development
A focused first version of your product, in front of real users in weeks.
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Web app rescue & modernisation
Inherited a fragile app? We stabilise it and bring it up to date, step by step.
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Websites for small businesses
A professional website, hosted and looked after on a simple monthly plan.