Why loading in 0.9 seconds makes the difference
A second feels like nothing. Online it is an eternity: visitors drop off, Google penalises, and your ad budget leaks away to a slow site.
Short answer: every extra second of load time costs conversion and findability. Google's thresholds: LCP < 2.5s, INP < 200 ms, CLS < 0.1 — our deliveries aim for loading under 1 second.
What slowness really costs
A second feels like nothing. Online it is an eternity. With every extra second of load time the number of drop-offs rises, conversion falls and paid traffic gets more expensive — because a slow landing page lowers your quality score. And since speed counts toward ranking via the Core Web Vitals, you also pay with findability.
So speed is not a technical detail. It is a revenue lever.
Where the delay is
Nine out of ten slow sites share the same culprits:
- Images supplied and served far too heavy.
- Scripts and fonts that block rendering.
- A pile-up of trackers, plugins and marketing tools.
- Hosting that does not match the traffic — or is set up wrong.
- No caching or CDN, so every visitor fetches everything again.
How we build in speed
Fixing speed afterwards is mopping. That is why with us it is in the foundation: we build on Nuxt with server-side rendering or static generation, so the visitor gets fully built pages instead of a blank screen with loading.
- Images in modern formats, automatically scaled and lazy-loaded.
- Code-splitting: only loading what the page really needs.
- Fonts subsetted and loaded smartly — no flashing text swaps.
- Caching and CDN set up from day one.
- A performance budget per page, guarded at every release.
Maintaining speed after launch
A fast site becomes slow again on its own if no one watches: every new feature, tracker or photo nibbles at it. That is why monitoring belongs to maintenance — with periodic audits and a budget that is guarded. That is how the fintech dashboard from our case stayed at 0.9 second after launch too.
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