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Lookin back at last year, for one project we had 6 working days to rebuild Human AI Academy's site before a launch.
The old site scored 45/100 on performance and took 6.2 seconds to load. With a launch about to send thousands of people to one page, that was the real risk. Not the design.
So speed came first. We built 30+ custom Framer components and kept every section light enough to load fast on launch day.
The result: 94/100 on performance, 1.8s load time, and launch week took them from 4,000 to 12,000 students.
What I keep relearning: on launch week, the page doesn't need to be clever. It needs to load before people lose interest.
Looks amazing!!
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My portfolio, reimagined in Framer
The goal was simple: bring everything together in one place, from client projects and case studies to Framer templates and project videos, while keeping the experience clean and easy to navigate.
The entire portfolio fits within a strict 100vh viewport, so you can explore everything without scrolling.
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Portfolio link in the comments.
How fast can a template get without changing a single pixel?
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We just optimized 11 of our templates in Framer, Astro and Next.js. The rule was simple: nothing visible changes, only how things load.
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What we changed: CSS inside the page, fonts from our own domain instead of Google Fonts, WebP images with phone-sized copies, videos that load when you scroll near them, heavy videos re-encoded without visible loss (one template went from about 20 MB of video to 2.4 MB), WebGL that starts near the screen, and analytics after the page. Every page was checked pixel by pixel at three widths before and after.
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Mobile PageSpeed now, Astro / Next.js:
Sunbeam 100 / 100
Auria 100 / 96
Lapse 97 / 98, up from 64 / 66
Parley 97 / 94
Nova Quinn 93 / 92 ⠀
On desktop, Mote scores 98 in Framer and 100 in Astro and Next.js.
More posts on the individual fixes coming.
Nothing visible changes, only how things load is such a good rule. Speed work like this is underrated, buyers feel it even if they can't see it.
AI can build the UI in minutes.
Bringing it up to a good standard, still needs a designer. Agree or disagree?
I see some of your work and honestly your work is really premium 🎉🎉
Great job Alex🎉🎉🔥🔥