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Delivering perfection using imperfect delivery

Tue 11th Feb 2020

Why wait for perfection when ‘good enough’ will do, and is available right now? It’s not about about reducing quality or missing your goals, it’s about realising what’s actually important for your project.

Design Sprints

Mon 19th Nov 2018

What is a design sprint, why should you use them, and are they even relevant for web-based projects where time and budget are usually a key factor?

Addressing Location

Wed 14th Mar 2018

With the formal announcement of Google’s Plus Code addressing concept, it’s time to look at the alternatives to street addresses and ‘meaningless’ longitude and latitude co-ordinates.

Mod_pagespeed versus manual optimisation

Mon 11th Sep 2017

When we first started looking at making page speed improvements to our projects, we were very excited by the prospect of all the hard work being doing for us using the Apache mod_pagespeed module – something that, with the appropriate configuration, can automatically optimise your images, CSS and external scripting files to deliver a more [...]

Getting a score of 100 in Google Page Speed

Mon 4th Sep 2017

We’ve been focusing on improving the page speed scoring of the sites we produce for a while now (see here – why is Google’s page speed important? – for why we think it’s an important metric). From experience, a typical site – launched without much in the way of consideration towards page speed – will [...]

Why is Google’s Page Speed important?

Mon 28th Aug 2017

When we build sites, we’ve started to put a lot of emphasis on ensuring that the end result scores well in Google Page Speed Insights….but why are we doing that? After all: Page Speed Insights has been independently tested to account for less than 1% of the overall influence on your position in Google search [...]

How to dynamically inline your css

Mon 21st Aug 2017

Inlining your CSS can dramatically increase your Google Page Speed Insights score as well as making your sites load just a little bit quicker. Here’s how we do it.

Building websites for speed

Tue 15th Aug 2017

Using Google Page Speed Insights can give you a really good steer on how your site is performing and how it could be improved. It’s not the perfect measurement for code quality or standards compliance, and it doesn’t guarantee a good user experience…but it can show you quickly where your site might be improved, and gives you clear indicators of where the problems are.

Delivering better CMS for the public sector

Mon 29th Feb 2016

For all kinds of public sector clients, budgets and timelines are only ever going to get smaller, whereas the need to connect and communicate digitally will only ever grow. We’ve been working hard on delivering a solution that can solve this problem, and much more besides.