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Notes

Field notes on building sites that actually perform.

Practical writing on speed, conversion, and turning traffic into real inquiries — the same thinking that goes into every project I ship.

Performance/ 6 min

Speed is a feature: why every 100ms costs you customers

Performance isn’t a technical vanity metric — it’s the first impression, the conversion lever, and the SEO signal most sites quietly fail. Here’s how I think about making sites genuinely fast.

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