Our own site, rebuilt so its speed figures are re-checked whenever it changes.

Our old site showed 3 covers, with no captions and no case studies. The new one shows you exactly what we did on each project, and dates every figure.

Client
Duke Street Studio
Project
Strategy, design and build
Year
2026
Medium
Figma · Astro, on Cloudflare Workers
Left, the old home page: the Duke Street Studio wordmark on a dark gradient. Right, the new one: ‘Your work, shown properly’ and a ‘Start a project’ button.
Old and new home pages at the same phone size, September and October 2026.
Left, the token file’s entries for the yellow ‘accent’, type size ‘h2’ (28) and space ‘5’ (32). Right, the same three tokens in Figma’s specimen sheets.
Colour, type and spacing are set once, for the design and the site alike.
The Sydneyside tile’s title above its wall label: client ‘Sydneyside Contracting’, credit ‘Design and build, with Fortem Media’, project, year ‘2026’ and medium.
A wall label up close: client, project, year, medium and credit.

Three decisions

  1. Each page states its weight, and the home page its speed.

    Both are re-measured and dated before any change goes live. A mismatch stops it.

  2. Each piece carries a label that says exactly what we did.

    So you can see which part was ours before you ask.

  3. We show agency work only once the agency’s OK is on record.

    If you’re an agency, you decide which of your clients’ work appears here, and when.

Measured

How fast the home page’s main content appears on a phone

1.8 s

Good is 2.5 s or less; poor is over 4 s.

Old site, before the rebuild: 2.7 s

Lab test of our home page, Lighthouse mobile, median of 3 runs, 12 Oct 2026.

Evidence note 1

Credits

Strategy, design and build
Duke Street Studio
Typefaces
Schibsted Grotesk and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono
How this site is built

Notes

Every evidence mark on this page links here: what was measured, how and when.

  1. 1

    Largest Contentful Paint on our home page, mobile: 1.8 s. Lighthouse 13.5.0, median of 3 runs, 12 Oct 2026, commit e2ced33. Measured on the build before it went live. The old site measured 2.7 s with the same settings, as the median of 5 runs at its live address on 8 Oct 2026.

    Back to the claim

Tell us what you’re making

A few lines will do. We reply within 1–2 business days. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so and suggest who might be.

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