Services Optimization
Optimization
We measure how your site or application performs today, then fix what is slow, broken, hard to find or exposed.
We find what is holding a live product back, fix it in priority order, and show what changed.
Where are you today?
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Expertise
Speed
Measured improvements to how fast pages load and respond, found with profiling rather than guesswork.
- PerformanceProfiling and fixes for slow pages, queries and servers.Core Web Vitals and server response measured before and afterImage, script and caching improvementsDatabase query and API profilingFitsRunningGrowing
Quality
Testing and search and accessibility work, so the product works for everyone who reaches it.
- QA & testingManual and automated testing that finds faults before customers do.Test plans written from your requirementsAutomated end-to-end tests for critical journeysDefect reports with steps to reproduceFitsLaunchingRunning
- SEO & accessibilityTechnical fixes that help people and search engines use your site.Crawlability, metadata and structured data reviewAudit against WCAG 2.2 with keyboard and screen reader checksFixes prioritised by impactFitsLaunchingImproving
Hardening
A structured look at how your application and infrastructure could be attacked, and what to close first.
- Security auditsA review of your application and infrastructure for known weaknesses.Review against the OWASP Top 10Dependency, configuration and access checksFindings ranked by severity with fixes recommendedFitsLaunchingGrowing
Four ways to work with us
Start with a measured audit or commit to the fixes. Each is scoped and agreed in writing before work begins.
Audit
A structured assessment of speed, quality or security that ends in a ranked list of findings.
- Measured baseline for each area
- Findings ranked by importance
- Report your own team can act on
Improvement project
A defined set of fixes taken from the audit through to verified results.
- Fixed scope agreed from the findings
- Before and after measurements
- Changes documented for your team
Embedded engineer
An engineer who joins your team to work through a backlog of fixes.
- Work inside your repositories and reviews
- Agreed hours and duration
- Handover notes at the end
Monitoring retainer
Ongoing checks that keep the gains and catch regressions early.
- Regular performance and security reviews
- Alerts routed to an engineer
- Scale up or down as needs change
How an engagement runs
Every engagement follows the same five steps, adjusted to the size of the work.
Assess
We measure the current state of speed, quality and security, and agree what to improve first.
Recommend
We rank findings by impact and effort and set out the fixes with their trade-offs.
Fix
We make the agreed changes in small, tested steps, each with a way to reverse it.
Verify
We repeat the measurements and confirm each fix did what it was meant to.
Maintain
We set up checks so regressions are caught, and agree how often to review.
What you get
Faster pages
Load and response times measured and improved where they matter.
Reduced risk
Known weaknesses found, ranked and closed in priority order.
Fewer outages
Faults found in testing and monitoring rather than by customers.
Clearer priorities
A ranked list of work, so your team knows what to do first.
Testing and measurement tools we work with
Performance and load
- Lighthouse
- k6
Automated QA
- Playwright
Monitoring
- Sentry
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Security
- OWASP
Tools we use in delivery. We choose them to suit your team, and the list does not imply any partnership. OWASP is referenced as a set of guidance, not a certification. Logos belong to their owners.
How we work in this category
Measured.
Every change is compared against a baseline taken before work begins.
Ranked.
Findings are ordered by impact so effort goes where it matters.
Reversible.
Each fix can be rolled back if it does not behave as expected.
Frequently asked questions
Work in optimization
- Result1.9s
largest contentful paint on mobile, down from 4.8 s
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