Matthew Brook in detail

How we did it

A performer's site has one job on the day a promoter looks: load, and be current. We rebuilt it as pages made in advance and served from a global network, at the same addresses, so every link in a programme note or review still works. The design is dark and dramatic, built around photographs. No plugins, no WordPress login. Matthew is scrupulous about credit and asked us to make sure every photograph is correctly accredited.

The editor is shaped around what a singer changes: the diary, the biography, the recordings, the photographs. Matthew edits it himself, every change saved with a history, and the site rebuilds in about a minute.

We measured the old site and the new one on the same day, with the same tool on the same mobile profile. The code, the domain and the hosting are in accounts in Matthew's name, or transferable to him on request, with a written handover.

Before and after

• Main content on screen, mobileBefore4.8 sAfter1.1 s
• Performance score, mobileBefore81After100
• Homepage weightBefore706 KiBAfter278 KiB
• Requests to load the homepageBefore30After14

Back to the headline changes