A news site that stopped taking five seconds to read — Cignova

A news site that stopped taking five seconds to read

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Project details

Client: Curier Media
Industry: Media
Year: 2024
Services: Performance audit
Frontend rebuild
Caching
Technologies: WordPress
Redis
Cloudflare
Result: LCP from 5.1s down to 1.2s

Ad scripts tamed, layout pinned down, and the article readable in under two seconds.

Ads were blocking the render and the layout shifted twice before the first paragraph settled. We reserved space for every injected slot, deferred everything outside the critical path and moved the consent script behind first paint. Largest Contentful Paint went from 4.8s to 1.9s on mobile.

Frequently asked questions

A brochure site is typically six to eight weeks; a store or an application, three to five months. The variable is almost never our speed — it is how long content and approvals take on your side, which is why we agree those dates up front too.

Yes, entirely, from the first day. The repository is yours, the design files are yours, and there is no licence to renew. If you decide to work with someone else later, nothing has to be bought back.

That is the point of the CMS we build for you. Fields are named for what they are, previews match what publishes, and there is no way to break the layout by editing text. We train your team and leave written notes.

A maintenance plan if you want one: updates, monitoring, offsite backups, small changes included, and a short monthly note about what changed. If you would rather handle it in-house, we hand over documentation and answer questions for free for the first three months.

Often. Plenty of sites need their performance, accessibility or checkout fixed rather than a rebuild. We audit first and tell you honestly which of the two you are looking at, even when the answer is the cheaper one.

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