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Media · 2022

Digital Media Platform

The problem

The existing platform took eleven seconds to load an article on a mobile connection. Editors were publishing five to eight pieces a day through an interface that fought them at every step.

What we built

We rebuilt the front end as server-rendered pages with responsive images and a critical CSS path, and rewrote the editorial interface around the actual publishing sequence rather than a generic form.

What changed

  • Article load time reduced from eleven seconds to under two
  • Core Web Vitals moved into the green across mobile
  • Time to publish an article cut by roughly half