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Website Strategy9 min read

We Measured 21 Dartmouth Restaurants Going Online. Four of Them Have No Website at All.

Dartmouth restaurants have the hard part figured out. The kitchen works. We measured what happens when a hungry person on a phone tries to find them: median mobile LCP 2.8 seconds, 10 of 17 with no contact form, 7 with no way to order or book without calling. Here is the data, the method, and the fix you can do yourself tonight.

Sep 18, 2026Read article

E-commerce12 min read

Four Providence Bakeries, 437 Images, and Not One Price a Computer Can Read. Here Is the 20-Minute Fix.

A step-by-step walkthrough for Providence bakeries and legacy food shops: how to get your first 40 products onto the internet as text a machine can read, in about twenty minutes, using free tools. Includes measurements taken this morning from four real bakery websites, the exact markup to copy, and one fix you can do yourself today.

Aug 28, 2026Read article

Website Strategy7 min read

380 Years of Business, One Working Website: We Measured 23 Somerset Hair Salons

The nine longest-running salons and barber shops in Somerset, MA have 380 combined years in business between them and exactly one working website of their own. Here is the measured data, and the four-minute fix any of them can do today.

Aug 17, 2026Read article

Case Studies12 min read

We Rebuilt Our Own Photo Library. 76 of Our 155 Photos Are Still Over the Limit We Tell You to Hit.

Avalon tells every local business to get its images under 200 KB. We measured our own library on 3 August 2026: median full-size photo 196.1 KB, mean 209.9 KB, largest 475.9 KB, and 76 of 155 over the line. Here is the rebuild, the numbers before and after, the part still broken, and what a South Coast plumbing shop with 2,991 reviews and a 9.4-second website should do with it.

Aug 3, 2026Read article

E-commerce8 min read

Four of Fairhaven's Twenty Furniture Stores Have No Website. Here Is the Saturday-Morning Fix.

We measured all 20 furniture stores Google returns for Fairhaven, MA. Median mobile load is 4.6 seconds and four have no site at all. This is the free, step-by-step procedure for getting ten pieces of your inventory online this weekend, with no website and no developer.

Aug 1, 2026Read article

E-commerce13 min read

The state of digital on the South Coast, 2026: 65,293 reviews earned, 7.1 seconds to load

We audited 182 South Coast businesses across 13 trades and 8 towns, then cut the data for one legacy trade: the independent florist. The reputation is real and already earned. The websites are what is losing it.

Jul 26, 2026Read article