Common failures
Where this usually goes wrong
The three we are called in to fix most often. If any of these describe your current setup, that is the first thing we would change.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
Agreed before we start, so progress is visible in the months before it shows up in revenue.
- Largest Contentful Paint
- Field data from real devices, not a lab score. Under 2.5 seconds at the 75th percentile is the threshold that counts.
- Weeks 4–8 post-launch
- HTML served without JavaScript
- Every route returns complete content to a client that runs no scripts. Checked page by page before launch.
- Pre-launch
- Content changes without a developer
- Share of copy edits the marketing team ships alone. If it is not most of them, the CMS integration is not finished.
- Month 2