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Website optimisation

Get more out of the site you already have.

Optimisation is the least glamorous work available and usually the best value. No rebuild, no new brand - just removing the things costing you visitors on the site you already paid for.

It is also measurable in a way that redesigns are not. Load time, drop-off and enquiry rate all move, or they do not.

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Clutch 5.0/5 - 15+ years experience - Australia-wide

Where the wins are

Speed is the one every visitor feels.

People leave slow sites before they see anything.

Every extra second costs visitors, and it costs the ones on a phone in a car park most of all - which is often exactly who you want.

Speed is also a ranking factor, so a slow site is losing twice: fewer people arrive, and fewer of those who do stay long enough to act.

Then the quieter problem: what people do next.

Once the page is fast, the question is where visitors stop. A form that asks too much, a phone number nobody can find on a phone, a page that never says what to do.

These are cheap to fix and rarely looked at, because nothing about them appears broken.

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What we look at

Six places sites leak visitors.

  • Load speed

    Images, scripts, fonts and hosting. Most slow sites are slow for two or three specific reasons that can be named after ten minutes of looking.

  • The phone experience

    Tap targets, readable text, forms that work with a thumb. Usually where the largest share of visitors and the worst experience meet.

  • Forms

    Every extra field costs completions. Most forms ask for things nobody needs until later in the conversation.

  • Calls to action

    Whether a page ever tells the visitor what to do next, and whether that instruction is visible without scrolling.

  • Technical SEO

    Titles, headings, crawlability and duplicates. Optimisation work that also happens to help rankings.

  • Measurement

    Tracking that shows where people drop out, so the next round of changes is aimed rather than guessed.

Straight answers

What businesses ask about optimisation.

Is this cheaper than a new website?

Usually much cheaper, and often the right answer. If the structure of your site is sound, optimisation gets you most of the benefit of a rebuild for a fraction of the cost. If the structure is the problem, we will say so.

How much faster can our site get?

It depends what is making it slow, which is why the audit comes first. Sites carrying unused plugins, uncompressed images and a dozen tracking scripts have a lot of room; a lean site on good hosting has less.

We would rather measure yours than quote you somebody else's improvement.

Will this help our Google rankings?

Speed and technical health are genuine ranking factors, so it helps. It is not a substitute for SEO - optimisation makes the site you have work properly, SEO competes for the searches. They are complementary rather than interchangeable.

Can you work on a site you did not build?

Yes, that is most of this work. WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, custom builds - the audit tells us what we are dealing with before anything is touched.

Find out what your site is losing.

Send us the address. We will measure the speed, look at the phone experience and tell you the three changes worth making first.

Call 1300 998 778