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Yes, free.

Firing off the first email is daunting. How much will this cost? What do I even need? I’m not sure what to ask for!

I get it. I wouldn’t like to do it either.

To make things much more comfortable, we can start with a free, zero obligation consultation:

  1. You give me a site or a handful of URLs and a little context.
  2. I take a look over your Core Web Vitals data.
  3. I identify your key liabilities and pain points and provide early triage.
  4. I suggest an appropriate level of engagement.
  5. You decide if you’d like to proceed.

It’s as simple as that.

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Example Consultation

Free consultations are incredibly low fidelity but usually of very high value. Here is a consultation I did for a potential client:

  • Latest Core Web Vitals data shows we need to focus on LCP and CLS: Latest Core Web Vitals data
    • We regressed in August—does this line up with any changes?
  • Huge gaps between milestones hints at client-rendered content: Gaps between TTFB, FCP, and LCP
    • Super fast response times but late LCP suggest we’ve moved a lot of work into the browser. This is almost never faster.
  • Leaning so heavily on CSR also harms CLS—we aren’t placeholding all of the nascent content.
  • Not only are we client-rendering, we’re also lazily loading the images we insert. Slow on top of slow.
    • Only, it actually appears to be broken, so we’re almost definitely incurring double downloads (or worse).
  • It looks like Collection pages fare worse than actual Product pages—note the differing percentages for Poor experiences:
    • Collections:
    • Products:
  • I would definitely recommend at least an audit-style engagement to solve these Core Web Vitals issues.
    • I’ll attach some options and guide prices with this mini-audit.

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Hi there, I’m Harry Roberts. I am an award-winning Consultant Web Performance Engineer, designer, developer, writer, and speaker from the UK. I write, Tweet, speak, and share code about measuring and improving site-speed. You should hire me.

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I specialise in large, product-based projects where performance, scalability, and maintainability are paramount.