Services — Performance Rescue
Website Performance Rescue: Pass Core Web Vitals
Your site looks right and sells wrong: rankings slipping, paid clicks bouncing, Search Console flagging Core Web Vitals in red. The design isn't the problem — the implementation is. We fix slow websites by rebuilding what's underneath, not by asking you to start over.
What you get
Everything included, nothing vague
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A front-end rebuilt, not patched
We replace the heavy implementation underneath your design instead of stacking optimization plugins on top of it.
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Your design, preserved pixel for pixel
Layouts, type, color and imagery stay exactly as your customers know them — or get quietly refined where you ask.
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100/100 PageSpeed, documented
Before-and-after Lighthouse reports for every key template, so the improvement is verifiable, not anecdotal.
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Core Web Vitals that pass
LCP, INP and CLS brought inside Google’s thresholds — the layer of page experience your rankings quietly depend on.
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An audited third-party stack
Every script justified or removed; what survives moves off the main thread. Most sites lose 80–95% of their JavaScript.
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A maintainable codebase
Clean, documented templates replace the page-builder output — future changes stop being archaeology.
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30 days of post-launch fixes
We watch the field data after the switch and adjust anything that needs it, included.
Diagnosis
Symptoms we see every week
- PageSpeed scores in the 20–50 range on mobile while the marketing team is asked to "drive more traffic" to the same pages.
- A theme or page builder carrying years of accumulated apps — each one adding its own script, font and tracking pixel.
- Product pages that visibly assemble themselves: images popping in, buttons jumping as banners load, customers tapping the wrong thing.
- "Failing" or "Needs improvement" Core Web Vitals in Search Console for months, with rankings drifting down in slow motion.
- Rising cost per acquisition on paid traffic while conversion rate falls — the landing experience quietly taxing every channel.
Any two of these are usually enough to justify a rescue. Core web vitals optimization is not cosmetic — it changes what Google and your customers do with the site.
Method
A rescue, not a redesign
Think of it as a transplant — a pagespeed optimization service that optimizes by rebuilding, not by stacking plugins. We take your existing design — every layout, every type choice, every color — and reimplement it as a hand-coded Astro front-end: critical CSS inlined, images re-encoded to modern formats with exact dimensions, fonts self-hosted and subset, scripts audited one by one. Interactive features are rebuilt as small isolated islands so the rest of each page ships as plain, instant HTML. Your customers notice nothing except that the site suddenly feels expensive. If you'd rather pair the rebuild with a visual refresh, that's a custom design and development engagement instead.
Process & timeline
Four steps, all in writing
Typical timeline for a performance rescue: 1–3 weeks depending on template count.
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Brief — 5 minutes.
Share your URL and what hurts: rankings, bounce rate, ad costs. Written brief, no calls.
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Audit & proposal — within 24 hours.
We profile the site and reply with the bottleneck list, fixed scope, fixed price and timeline.
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Rebuild.
The front-end is reimplemented on Astro behind a preview URL. You compare it to production side by side.
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Switch & verify.
DNS-level cutover with rollback ready, before-and-after reports delivered, 30 days of fixes included.
Stack & approach
Built on Astro, zero JavaScript by default
The rebuilt front-end runs on Astro: static HTML by default, JavaScript only where a feature genuinely needs it. Where your commerce or CMS back-end stays, we connect to it — the rescue replaces the rendering layer, not your operations. The before-and-after is measured with Lighthouse on a mid-range phone profile and documented in writing.
Because the result is plain code rather than a builder configuration, the gains hold: no app updates re-bloating the site six months later, no platform lock-in, and a codebase any developer can maintain.
From the portfolio
A performance rescue that kept every pixel of the design
A Los Angeles skincare brand kept its freshly refreshed visual identity and lost the page builder underneath it. JavaScript dropped by 94%, and Core Web Vitals went from failing to green.
Read the case study
FAQ
Asked before every brief
My current site is slow. Can you fix it?
Yes — that's our Performance Rescue service. We rebuild the front-end to 100/100 PageSpeed while keeping (or upgrading) your design.
How long does it take?
Landing pages: 1–2 weeks. Full websites: 2–4 weeks. Performance rescue: 1–3 weeks. Timelines are fixed in the proposal.
Is SEO included?
The technical layer is built in: semantic HTML, structured data, perfect Core Web Vitals, clean URLs, sitemaps. That's the foundation rankings are built on.
Who owns the code?
You do. 100% of the code and design files transfer to you on final payment, with documentation any developer can pick up.
How much does a website cost?
Projects start at $5,000. Most land between $5,000 and $15,000 depending on scope. After your brief you get a fixed written quote — no hourly billing, no surprises.