Athlean-X
2017—2022Developed a custom Laravel-powered backend with a fully bespoke cart and product system. Optimized for performance, scalability, and user-friendly e-commerce experiences.
- Laravel
- WordPress
- JavaScript
- PHP
Florida · Remote-friendly
A page that takes six seconds on a phone has already lost most of the people who tapped it, and Google knows it. Speed work is not a plugin — it is finding which of your images, scripts, fonts and database queries is actually costing the time, and fixing those. For a Fort Lauderdale business that usually means more calls from the same traffic, without spending anything more on ads.
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Worked for
- Nielsen
- Athlean-X
- Samtek
- Antamba
- Bikerevier
- Island Painting
- 100k+
- daily visitors kept online
- Athlean-X
- +40
- Lighthouse points on client redesigns
- Client sites
- On schedule
- government content migration, in progress
- Samtek, 2026
01 — What’s included
The audit comes first and it is specific: what the site scores on real hardware, which resource is responsible for each slow second, and what each fix is worth against what it costs to do. You see that list before any work starts, ranked, so you can take the top three and stop there if that is the right call. Nothing gets claimed as fixed without a before-and-after measurement you can read.
- 01Core Web Vitals audit on real mobile hardware, not a desktop score
- 02A ranked list of causes with the time each one costs and the effort to fix it
- 03Image, font and script delivery rebuilt: formats, sizing, loading order
- 04Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript cleared from the critical path
- 05Caching, compression and database query fixes at the server level
- 06Before-and-after numbers in writing, plus field data once it catches up
Local context — Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is the center of the marine industry, and that shapes the web work here: yards, brokers and refit specialists all have large photo libraries and clients who may be on another continent. Around it sit hospitality, construction and professional services, most of them serving a mix of residents, seasonal owners and visitors.
Websites rarely need only one thing done to them. For Fort Lauderdale businesses I also take on website redesign in Fort Lauderdale and business websites in Fort Lauderdale, and just up the road I cover website speed in Miami and website speed in West Palm Beach.
Website speed in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale marine and hospitality sites are almost always slow for the same reason: photography. Hundreds of full-resolution images per listing, uploaded straight from a camera, served at full size to a phone. The fix is rarely a redesign — it is modern formats, correct sizing, and loading images as they are needed rather than all at once, which routinely cuts page weight by most of itself without changing how a single page looks.
Who I build for in Fort Lauderdale
- Marine, yachting and refitHundreds of vessel and project photos have to load quickly on a phone, and capability pages have to read clearly to an owner or captain who found you from abroad.
- Hospitality and tourismVisitors plan on phones from out of state, so fast pages, clear directions and working booking links decide who takes the reservation.
- Construction, trades and home servicesA page for each trade and each area it covers, plus a quote form that takes under a minute, is what turns a local search into a call.
- Professional and financial servicesClients check credibility before they ring, so clear team pages, service scope and contact paths carry more weight than visual flourish.
02 — Proof
A few of the sites behind this service. Live links where the client allows it.
Learn Athlean-X
2017—2022Managed full-stack development of a high-traffic WordPress blog with a custom JavaScript-based cart system. Enhanced usability, performance, and editor workflows with custom themes, plugins, and integrations.
- WordPress
- JavaScript
- PHP
- HTML
Bikerevier
2024Redesigned and optimized a WooCommerce-powered WordPress site for a bicycle shop in Switzerland. Improved responsiveness, modernized styling, and streamlined the shopping experience for better conversions.
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- JavaScript
- PHP
Result
100k+
Daily visitors
A custom Laravel cart and checkout that stayed fast for more than 100,000 visitors a day, promotions included.
03 — Process
Four steps and no surprises: you approve the scope before work starts and the site before it launches.
01
Discovery
A short call or email exchange about your goals, your customers and what is not working today. Free, with no commitment.
02
Proposal
A written scope, timeline and fixed price, so you know exactly what you are getting before anything starts.
03
Development
The work happens on a staging site you can open at any time, with plain-language updates at agreed checkpoints.
04
Delivery
Testing, a launch in a low-traffic window, documentation and a handoff session, then support while your team settles in.
04 — Questions
01We have hundreds of project photos. Will the site still be fast?
Yes. Large galleries are a delivery problem, not a reason to cut the photos. Images are resized to the sizes actually used, served in modern formats, and loaded as the visitor scrolls, so a page with fifty photos can still load in about a second.
02Can we meet in person in Fort Lauderdale?
When it helps, yes. Most Fort Lauderdale projects run remotely by video call and email, and I can come over for a kickoff or a launch review. Site visits for photography or a yard walkthrough can be arranged as part of the project.
03Will this actually help my Google rankings?
Core Web Vitals are a ranking signal, so it helps, but honestly the bigger win is usually conversion. The same number of Fort Lauderdale visitors arrive and more of them stay long enough to call.
04Do I need a redesign instead?
Often not, and the audit will say so. If the site looks right and simply performs badly, speed work is a fraction of the cost of a rebuild. If the structure itself is the problem, I will tell you that rather than sell you the cheaper job twice.
05How long does it take?
The audit takes a few days. Most fixes land within one to two weeks. Field data in Search Console lags about four weeks behind the work, so the final numbers arrive after the invoice does.
05 — Service areas
I work with businesses across Florida, on both coasts. Pick your city for details specific to your area.
Nearby areas
- Website speed · MiamiMiami-Dade County
- Website speed · West Palm BeachPalm Beach County
Other services in Fort Lauderdale
- Website migrationMove from Contentful, Squarespace, Wix, Drupal, or old WordPress with every page inventoried and every URL redirected.
- Website redesignModernize an existing site: faster, mobile-first, accessible, and ready for local search.
- Business websitesA new site for your business that loads fast, ranks locally, and is easy to update.
- E-commerce websitesWooCommerce stores that stay fast as the catalogue grows, with a checkout that does not lose the sale.
- Website maintenanceUpdates, backups, security and uptime monitoring, handled by the developer who knows how the site is built.
Related guide
Tell me what you need. You’ll get a fixed quote, a timeline, and a clear next step within one business day.
- 01Free first conversation
- 02No commitment
- 03Fixed quote, no hourly surprises
- 04Replies within one business day
06 — Contact
Send me your current website address and what is not working for you. I will reply within one business day with a clear scope, timeline, and price, or tell you if I am not the right fit.
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