Real Lighthouse audits · 6 July 2026

Legacy sites,
now mint condition.

We ran Google Lighthouse over all three live sites today — no cherry-picking, same tool Google uses. Solid builds, but ageing: performance stalled in the fifties, pages taking four to seven seconds to paint. Here's every score, next to what the Mint Essentials rebuild delivers.

Performance score

57100

Largest paint

5.3s0.9s

Page weight

2.4MB0.4MB

Marshlands Bobcats

marshlands.co.nz
Live todayMint Essentials
Performance
55
100
Accessibility
68
100
Best Practices
100
100
SEO
83
100
Largest contentful paint4.6s → 0.9s
Homepage weight1.5MB → 0.4MB

K Endodontics

k-endo.co.nz
Live todayMint Essentials
Performance
61
100
Accessibility
80
100
Best Practices
100
100
SEO
83
100
Largest contentful paint4.1s → 0.9s
Homepage weight0.7MB → 0.4MB

Payne-Free Bathrooms

paynefreebathrooms.co.nz
Live todayMint Essentials
Performance
56
100
Accessibility
83
100
Best Practices
100
100
SEO
67
100
Largest contentful paint7.1s → 0.9s
Homepage weight5MB → 0.4MB

Why the jump

Nothing exotic. Just built for how the web works now.

The old sites are honest brochure sites — but they ship a database-driven page, unoptimised images, and a stack of third-party scripts that block the first paint. The rebuild serves pre-rendered HTML and modern image formats, and drops the render-blockers entirely.

Loaded on every live site, render-blocking:

  • Render-blocking Google Fonts
  • FontAwesome icon CDN
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics
  • DoubleClick / Ads tags

Under it all

And this is the most exciting part.

It's Astro. And when a site needs a CMS,Sanity — the most agentically capable platform there is. Together they let us process requests at lightning speed, deliver SEO results that genuinely delight customers, and ship secure, rock solid websites at scale — with none of the ballooning licence costs or endless security patching of the old way.

The simple story — that you can offer clients an AI search result driven platform — is enough to win the sale on its own. It's what underpins this entire direction for our business, and I genuinely hope it benefits yours.

Where to from here

A few ways we could work together — starting points to put across your desk.

Read the proposal