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Website Speed vs Website Design: What Actually Converts Better?
Performance Research consistently shows that faster websites convert better. A 0.1-second speed gain can lift conversions by 8-10%. The problem is not design itse
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Over 430 sites audited and 41,000 pages analysed. This is the useful part of that.
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Why sites are slow, what breaks them, and what to do instead. Written while auditing other people’s.
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Performance Research consistently shows that faster websites convert better. A 0.1-second speed gain can lift conversions by 8-10%. The problem is not design itse
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Performance Core Web Vitals measure how fast your page loads, how quickly it responds to clicks, and whether content jumps around. Bad scores mean higher bounce r
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Performance A good-looking website does not mean a well-ranking website. Hero videos, heavy fonts, and animation libraries make pages slow. Google ranks based on
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Technical Most websites ship far more JavaScript than they need, wasting energy and slowing things down. This guide covers five practical ways to cut the waste:
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Technical Most websites load 20 or more third-party scripts for analytics, ads, and chat widgets. These scripts slow your site down, waste energy, and risk user
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Accessibility WCAG 2.2 was published in October 2023 and adds 9 new success criteria to WCAG 2.1. The biggest changes improve mobile usability (minimum target sizes
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Accessibility Website accessibility means making your website usable by everyone, including people who are blind, deaf, have motor impairments, cognitive disabiliti
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AI & Search AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity choose which websites to cite based on clear structure, factual claims, and authority signals — not just b
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AI & Search GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimisation. It means making your website easy for AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews to find, understand
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AI & Search llms.txt is a simple text file you add to your website that tells AI systems what your organisation does and how it should be described. Think of it l
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SEO The same changes that improve your Google rankings also cut your website's carbon footprint. Faster pages use less energy. Smaller images transfer les
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Industry Grid-aware websites change what they show based on how clean the electricity grid is at that moment. It sounds smart, but the actual carbon savings ar
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Industry In 2026, a UK business website costs anywhere from £500 (template, freelancer) to £30,000+ (large agency build). A professionally hand-cod
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Industry Green hosting means choosing a data centre that runs on renewable energy, but not all green claims are equal. The best providers use direct renewable
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Industry We audited 44 websites covering 6,168 pages. The average page produced 1.24 grams of CO2e per visit and weighed 9.7 MB. About 35% of emissions were co
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Sustainability Switching to a "green" host is not enough to make your website sustainable. Most green hosting claims are based on paper certificates, not actual clea
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Sustainability EcoPigs v3 is built on the EcoPigs Measured-Carbon Model (EMCM). Instead of estimating a website's carbon from page weight and a yearly grid average,
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Sustainability Most carbon tools check your CDN, not your actual server, so they give misleading green hosting results. Your real origin server could be on a dirty g
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Sustainability Your website creates carbon emissions every time someone visits it. These fall under Scope 3 — the indirect emissions most companies overlook. This ar
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Sustainability Digital sustainability is the practice of designing, building, and running websites and digital products in ways that minimise their environmental imp
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Sustainability carbon.txt is a simple file you add to your website that lists your hosting providers and links to proof of their sustainability claims. It makes gree
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B Corp B Corps focus on sustainability in their physical operations but often overlook their websites. This article explains how digital sustainability fits
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