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The 11-second rule: what people actually read above the fold
Eye-tracking on twelve client sites, and the pattern that held every time.
Notes from inside the accounts.
Thirty articles, each written by whoever actually ran the work — with the numbers, the tests that failed, and the parts we would do differently.
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Every article we have published.
Web Design
Design systems for teams of three
You do not need forty components. You need the eleven you keep rebuilding.
Web Design
Why your hero image is costing you conversions
We removed it on six sites. Five got better. Here is what separated them.
Web Design
Message architecture before wireframes, always
Every page gets a job description before it gets a layout.
Web Design
Accessible contrast without ruining the brand
Passing AA while keeping the palette the founder actually approved.
Web Design
The pricing page teardown checklist
Nineteen questions we ask before touching a single pricing table.
SEO
SEO after AI Overviews: what still compounds
Twelve months of ranking data from accounts that gained and accounts that lost.
SEO
Internal linking is the cheapest ranking win left
No new content, no outreach, no budget. Just the graph you already have.
SEO
Programmatic pages that do not get you penalised
1,200 pages, one template, and the three rules that kept them indexed.
SEO
How we plan a 4,200-URL migration
The redirect map exists before the staging site does. Here is the process.
SEO
Topic clusters, honestly assessed
Where the model works, where it is cargo cult, and how to tell early.
SEO
Core Web Vitals in 2026: what still matters
INP replaced FID two years ago. Most audits still have not noticed.
Paid Media
Your product feed is the bid strategy
Six feed changes that moved return further than any bidding experiment.
Paid Media
The geo holdout that made our numbers look worse
How we proved an account was reporting revenue it did not cause.
Paid Media
Sixty ads a month without burning budget
A fixed test budget, a retirement rule, and no sentimentality about winners.
Paid Media
Performance Max, audited honestly
What the channel report hides, and the three queries that reveal it.
Paid Media
Offline conversion imports, step by step
Teaching the bidder which leads actually closed, in about an afternoon.
Paid Media
When to stop scaling a winning campaign
Marginal CAC is the number. Almost nobody watches it.
WordPress
Retheme or rebuild? A decision framework
The cost comparison we run before recommending either, with the maths shown.
WordPress
Thirty plugins, five replacements
The scoring sheet: query cost, update cadence, asset weight, real bespoke need.
WordPress
Block themes for editors who hate builders
Patterns your marketing team can ship without opening a support ticket.
WordPress
Multisite: when it helps and when it hurts
Eleven sites on one codebase is wonderful. Three sites is usually a mistake.
WordPress
Server-side tagging on WordPress
A container, a subdomain, and the conversion signal your bidder deserves.
WordPress
The plugin audit we run before every quote
Twenty minutes that changes the shape of most rebuild proposals.
Ecommerce
Product pages that sell: 11 patterns we A/B tested
Across $40M of traffic — and the three best practices that lost every test.
Ecommerce
Eleven checkout fields we deleted
What happened to completion rate, and the two fields we had to put back.
Ecommerce
Merchandising rules that beat manual curation
Sort by margin, not by newest. The uplift is larger than most redesigns.
Ecommerce
Subscription churn: the three moments that matter
Pause, swap and dunning. Get these right and retention takes care of itself.
Ecommerce
AOV levers, ranked by effort
Nine tactics, plotted against the engineering hours each one actually costs.
Ecommerce
Headless commerce: worth it at what scale?
The revenue threshold where the complexity starts paying for itself.
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