Helio

Challenge

A scaling company's website loaded in over 4 seconds, failed accessibility audits, and required a developer for every copy change — bottlenecking the marketing team and hurting search visibility at exactly the wrong time.

Approach

We treated performance and accessibility as first-class requirements, not afterthoughts. A performance budget was agreed up front, an accessibility-first component library was built to enforce consistent patterns, and content migrated to a headless CMS so marketing could publish independently from engineering.

Solution

The site was rebuilt on Next.js with edge rendering and automatic image optimisation, a fully typed design system, and a headless CMS with live preview for the marketing team. Automated Lighthouse and accessibility audits ran on every deployment, blocking regressions before they reached production.

Results

• Load time dropped from ~4.2s to ~1.1s on the primary marketing pages
• Lighthouse reached 100 across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO
• Marketing team ships content and copy changes independently, without engineering involvement
• Illustrative of the performance and editorial outcomes this kind of rebuild targets