An Astro developer for sites where speed is the brief.
Astro ships zero JavaScript by default — pages arrive as plain, fast HTML. It’s our speed product: the stack we reach for when mobile PageSpeed decides rankings, Quality Score, and how many visitors stay. Builds from $4,999.
Fast because less ships, not because more is optimized.
Most speed work trims a slow stack. Astro starts from zero and adds only what the page needs.
Same process, stricter budget.
Scope & quote
Page count and content model set the price. Fixed quote; half up front, half on delivery.
Design
From Figma, examples, or scratch — designed against a performance budget from day one, not tested at the end.
Build
Hand-coded, no page builder. Every image, font, and script accounted for. Redirects and meta carry over on rebuilds.
Launch & verify
We publish the PageSpeed run at launch. The score is the acceptance test, not a hope.
Right when speed has a dollar value.
PageSpeed Insights audits your site on an emulated mid-range phone over slow 4G. Scoring 100 there isn’t cosmetic: Core Web Vitals feed rankings, landing-page speed feeds Google Ads Quality Score, and every second of load time costs conversions.
The honest trade-off: Astro is hand-built, so it starts at $4,999 and your team edits content through a CMS rather than a drag-and-drop builder. If visual self-editing matters more than raw speed, WordPress is the better buy.
- Marketing sites & landing pages
- Core Web Vitals engineering
- Ad landing pages (Quality Score)
- Headless WordPress & markdown content
- Image & font optimization
- PageSpeed run published at launch
PageSpeed Insights · mobile · emulated Moto G Power, slow-4G throttling · a Tampa personal-injury firm, July 2026
// recreated from a real PageSpeed Insights run — client anonymized
From $4,999 — hand-built, and priced like it.
No theme, no builder — every page is written for your site specifically, which is exactly why it’s fast. Page count and content model drive the quote; the PageSpeed score at launch is part of the deliverable, not a marketing line.
- PageSpeed run published at launch
- Fixed quote before work starts
- No long-term contracts
- You own the code and the content
Astro, answered straight.
What it is, what it costs, and when it beats WordPress. For the broader practice, see our website design agency page.
Astro is a web framework that renders pages to plain HTML at build time and ships zero JavaScript by default. Interactive elements load as isolated "islands," so a contact form can be dynamic while the rest of the page stays static and instant. The result is the fastest class of marketing site you can build today.
A WordPress page assembles itself from a theme, a page builder, and plugins — each adding scripts and styles the visitor downloads. An Astro page ships only what it uses. Our best client run scored 100 mobile Performance with 0.9-second first paint and zero blocking time on Google’s slow-4G, mid-range-phone test.
Yes, through a CMS — including headless WordPress, so editors keep an interface they already know — or markdown files for technical teams. What you give up is drag-and-drop page building; if that matters more than speed, we’ll steer you to WordPress and say why.
Builds start at $4,999, half up front and half on delivery. It costs more than our WordPress builds because every page is hand-coded rather than assembled in a builder — that’s also precisely why it’s faster. Page count and content model set the final quote.
Yes, in two documented ways: Core Web Vitals are part of Google’s page-experience signals for rankings, and landing-page experience is a component of Google Ads Quality Score, which changes what you pay per click. Speed also compounds quietly — slower pages lose visitors before the pixel fires, so most sites underestimate the cost.
Let's talk about Astro.
Free audit, honest scope, published pricing. No obligation, no long-term contract.