The story
When someone searches for a personal-injury lawyer, they open five tabs and start eliminating. Rob’s firm had the best case results in the county and the slowest site in the tab row, and slow reads as sloppy, in a profession where sloppy is disqualifying.
The practice-area pages were long, thorough, and heavy: consultation forms, chat widgets, tracking pixels from three marketing agencies. Every widget was somebody’s good idea; together they were a six-second wait.
Cached and de-bloated, the same pages now load like a verdict. The chat widget still works. It just waits its turn behind the content that wins the client.