How does Webflow handle website performance and loading speeds?
Webflow serves sites through a CDN with SSL included, minifies code when you publish, and creates responsive image sizes. It can lazy-load images too. How fast a page ends up depends mostly on what's on it, such as image sizes and third-party scripts, so those are the first things to check.
What Webflow gives you
- Hosting through a CDN, so files are served from locations near the visitor.
- An SSL certificate on the site.
- Minified CSS and JavaScript when the site is published.
- Responsive image sizes for the images you upload, and lazy loading you can switch on.
There are no plugins to update and no server of your own to manage. That removes some causes of a slow site, but not all of them.
What still slows a Webflow site
Big uncompressed images, video, lots of third-party scripts and heavy animations. Webflow can't fix those for you. We have our own image compressor, Pacing Compressor, for shrinking images before they go into Webflow.
Where Cloudflare fits
Some of our Webflow sites have Cloudflare in front for DNS, caching and security. It's an add-on, not part of Webflow's hosting. See the Webflow tool page for how we build on it.
The tools in this answer
WebflowWe're a Webflow Certified Partner. Your team can edit the pages without a developer, and the tracking and forms are wired in before launch.Tech
CloudflareSits in front of our sites and tools: DNS and caching, Workers, R2 storage, Access, Turnstile and Pages.Tech
GSCShows which searches bring people to a site and which pages Google has indexed. We check it after every launch, migration and batch of new pages.Reporting
Where this came up in our work
- Client work
Sector7
An award-winning rebuild, 177% more new users in 2025 than 2024, and Jon calls it "executed flawlessly, on time and on budget".
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Hear Me London
A London audiology clinic got local pages, an online hearing test that logs to a sheet and emails the clinic, and server-side tracking behind every booking: 378 online bookings in 15 months, over half from organic search.
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How do you handle compliance management for my website?
We work with your cookie consent tool, or suggest one we've worked with, and connect it to your tags so they follow the visitor's choice. How that's wired depends on the project, so we test what your tags actually do. We don't write legal text or give legal advice, so your privacy policy needs sign-off from someone qualified.
What is content and SEO, and why does it matter?
Content is everything your audience reads, watches or listens to. SEO makes it easy to find when someone searches, on Google and other search engines. Together they bring in people who are already looking for what you do.
How do you develop a content strategy for my business?
We start with who you need to reach and which searches matter, using your Search Console data first. Then we line up the content you already have against the customer's journey, mark the gaps and put the pieces that matter most into a content calendar. After that it's writing and checking what earns clicks and enquiries.
How do you optimise content for search engines?
We make each page answer the search as fully as it can, and link to the expert where we aren't one. Then we get the basics right (keywords, titles, headings, internal links) and check in Search Console what the page actually appears for. Underneath it all, we write for the reader.
How often should I publish new content for SEO?
There's no number that suits everyone. Publish as often as you can keep up with at a standard you're happy with, because one good page a month beats four thin ones. Updating an older page counts too.
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