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Performance & Scale.

Fast Today. Ready for Tomorrow.

Performance isn't a feature you bolt on at the end. It's an engineering discipline that runs through every layer of your Craft site—from the database queries that power your pages to the CDN edge nodes that deliver them. And when traffic grows, your architecture either handles it gracefully or it doesn't.

We make Craft sites fast, and we keep them fast as they grow.

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The Cost of Slow

You already know slow sites lose visitors. But the compounding effects go further than most teams realize.

Every additional second of load time doesn't just increase bounce rate—it degrades every metric downstream. Conversion rates drop. Ad spend efficiency declines. SEO rankings slip. Internal teams lose trust in the platform and start looking for workarounds. Customer support volume increases because users think the site is broken when it's just slow.

And scaling problems don't announce themselves politely. They show up as a crashed site during your biggest product launch, a checkout flow that times out on Black Friday, or a content-heavy page that takes 8 seconds to render because nobody noticed the N+1 query problem until traffic doubled.

We've seen all of it. We fix all of it. And more importantly, we build systems where these problems don't happen in the first place.

Two Sides of the Same Problem

Performance and scale are related but distinct challenges. A site can be fast at low traffic and collapse under load. A site can handle massive traffic but deliver every page slowly. You need both—speed at every scale.

Our Performance & Scale Services

01

Performance

Make Every Request as Fast as It Can Be

Performance optimization is about eliminating waste. Unnecessary database queries, uncompressed assets, render-blocking scripts, missing cache headers, bloated Twig templates, unoptimized images—every Craft site accumulates these over time, and each one adds milliseconds that compound into seconds.

We approach optimization methodically. Measure first, then fix what matters most. No guessing, no cargo-cult best practices applied blindly. Your site's performance profile is unique, and the interventions that move the needle for you might be completely different from the last site we optimized.

Our performance work spans the full stack: front-end delivery, back-end response times, database query optimization, and comprehensive speed audits that give you a clear, prioritized roadmap from slow to fast.

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02

Scaling

Grow Without Breaking

Your Craft site works fine at current traffic levels. But what happens when traffic doubles? When you launch in three new markets? When a campaign goes viral and you get 50x your normal load in an afternoon?

Scaling is the engineering work that answers those questions before they become emergencies. It's caching architecture that absorbs traffic spikes without hitting your origin server. Load balancing that distributes requests intelligently across infrastructure. Horizontal scaling that adds capacity on demand. And auto-scaling systems that respond to real-time traffic patterns without human intervention.

The goal isn't just surviving traffic spikes—it's maintaining the same fast experience at 10x the load that you deliver on a quiet Tuesday.

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How We Approach Performance & Scale Work

  • 01

    We Measure Before We Touch Anything

    Every engagement starts with profiling. We instrument your site, run load tests, analyze query logs, and build a complete picture of where time is being spent. This isn't optional—it's how we avoid wasting your money optimizing things that don't matter.

  • 02

    We Fix the Highest-Impact Problems First

    Performance work follows a strict return-on-effort prioritization. A single slow database query that runs on every page load matters more than shaving 20kb off an image that appears on one page. We give you a ranked list of what to fix and why, then work through it systematically.

  • 03

    We Prove the Results

    Every optimization and scaling improvement is measured against baseline performance data. You'll see exactly what changed, by how much, and how it impacts real user experience. No vague claims of "improved performance"—specific metrics, specific improvements, before and after.

Performance & Scale FAQ

  • 01

    How do I know if my Craft site has performance problems?

    If your pages take more than 2 seconds to load, you have performance problems. If your server response time (TTFB) exceeds 500ms, you have backend performance problems. If your site slows down during traffic spikes or content team activity, you have scaling problems. Our technical audit can give you a complete assessment with specific numbers and a prioritized fix list.

  • 02

    Can you improve performance on a site another team built?

    Yes—this is a significant portion of our performance work. We regularly take over Craft sites built by other agencies or internal teams and dramatically improve their speed. We don't need to rebuild from scratch. We profile, identify bottlenecks, and fix them within your existing architecture wherever possible.

  • 03

    How much faster can you make our site?

    It depends on how slow it is now and why. We've taken sites from 6-second page loads down to under 800ms. We've reduced server response times from 1.2 seconds to under 100ms. The improvements are often dramatic because most Craft sites have never been systematically optimized. We'll give you realistic projections after our initial assessment.

  • 04

    What's the difference between performance optimization and scaling?

    Performance optimization makes individual requests faster—reducing the time it takes to generate and deliver a single page. Scaling ensures your site can handle many requests simultaneously without degrading. You typically need both: optimization first (make each request efficient), then scaling (ensure the infrastructure can handle volume). We often do them together.

  • 05

    Do we need to rebuild our site to improve performance?

    Almost never. The most impactful performance improvements come from targeted interventions: query optimization, caching strategy, asset delivery, and template refactoring. These can be done incrementally within your existing codebase. A full rebuild is only warranted when the underlying architecture is fundamentally flawed—and we'll be honest with you if that's the case.

  • 06

    What does ongoing performance management look like?

    Performance isn't a one-time fix. New content, new features, and growing traffic all introduce potential regressions. We offer ongoing retainers that include performance monitoring, regular audits, and proactive optimization. We'll catch problems before your users do.

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