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WordPress & Ecommerce Agency · Est. 1998

Web design that moves
at full speed.

We've been building WordPress and Magento websites since 1998. Public sector bodies, research institutions, ecommerce stores, and South West businesses — built fast, built properly, built to last.

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PageSpeed Insights · Desktop
100
/ 100
velocityweb.co.uk
Velocity Bolt™
Our proprietary performance framework
0.4s
First Contentful Paint
0.6s
Largest Contentful Paint
0
Cumulative Layout Shift
<80ms
Total Blocking Time
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Why speed matters

A slow website
isn't just annoying —
it costs you.

Google uses page speed as a ranking signal. Users abandon slow pages within seconds. We engineer every site for performance from the ground up — not as an afterthought.

2 secs
The average delay that reduces ecommerce conversions by 7%
53%
Of mobile users abandon a site that takes over 3 seconds to load
#1
Google's Core Web Vitals are now a direct ranking factor
100
Our own PageSpeed score — the standard we hold every build to
Before & after · Client migration example
Performance
Standard hosting41
Performance
Velocity Bolt97
Accessibility
Before78
Accessibility
After100
SEO
Before82
SEO
After100
What we do

Full-stack digital,
built to last.

All services

WordPress Design & Build

Bricks Builder-based sites engineered for editors, optimised for search, and designed to convert. Public sector specialists — 25+ years of local authority projects.

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Ecommerce & Magento

50+ live ecommerce stores. One of very few agencies in the South West with genuine Magento 2 expertise, plus WooCommerce and custom development.

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Public Sector & Local Authority

Devon County Council, Cornwall Council, Active Devon, Active Cornwall — we understand accessibility, procurement, and the complexity of builds where multiple teams need to agree.

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New

Digital Marketing & SEO

Technical SEO, Google Ads, GA4 analytics, and content strategy. We don't outsource. Every campaign is run in-house, grounded in data.

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Academic & Research

Learned societies, research consortia, and academic journals. We understand membership systems, multi-partner governance, WCAG compliance, and the pace of academic decision-making. Clients include BSPP, NPOP, and the Journal of Institutional Economics.

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New

AI Chat & Concierge

An AI chat widget that answers visitor questions and escalates to your team via WhatsApp — no new app required. Answers enquiries at 11pm. Captures leads you'd otherwise miss. Powered by Claude AI, deployed and managed by us.

Coming soon
Selected work

Projects we're
proud of.

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Public Sector
Devon County Council

Smokefree Devon Alliance

A campaign site bringing together public health partners across Devon, built in Bricks Builder with full WCAG AA accessibility compliance and a custom brand identity.

Bricks BuilderAccessibilityCampaign
Ecommerce
CR Wood / Miele

Magento 2 Multi-Store

Consumer and professional Miele appliance stores on a single Magento 2 installation, with Monday.com and Lightspeed POS integrations for real-time stock.

Magento 2API IntegrationMulti-store
Public Sector
Active Cornwall / Cornwall Council

Active Cornwall

A county-wide physical activity platform serving over 200 local activity providers, with GA4 reporting, custom activity finder, and managed hosting on our performance stack.

WordPressGA4Custom Plugin
Speed migration

Your site deserves
a faster future.

The Velocity Bolt isn't a hosting plan you can buy off the shelf. It's the distilled result of years of performance testing across 65 client sites — a curated combination of infrastructure, configuration, and optimisation techniques we've refined until the numbers speak for themselves. When we migrate your site, you're not just changing servers. You're inheriting everything we've learned.

  • Velocity Bolt™ — our proprietary performance stack
  • Enterprise-grade infrastructure · LiteSpeed · global CDN
  • Self-hosted fonts, WebP image conversion, CSS/JS optimisation
  • Performance score guaranteed to improve — or we investigate why
  • Ongoing managed hosting from £55/month
Talk to us about migrating →
Real client · Standard hosting → Velocity Bolt
38
Before
Standard shared hosting
→
96
After
Velocity Bolt
4.2s TTFB
0.18s
Time to First Byte
6.8s LCP
0.9s
Largest Contentful Paint
0.31 CLS
0.00
Layout Shift
1,240ms TBT
<50ms
Total Blocking Time
What clients say

25 years of
partnerships.

A really quick, high-quality build of our National Partnership for Ocean Prediction website — including a branding update and genuinely useful training on the CMS. Thank you!

AS
Andy Saulter
National Partnership for Ocean Prediction

They took time to understand exactly what we wanted, then quickly built a site that does just that. Every query about the new site and booking system was answered right away, never making us feel like it was any trouble. Highly recommend."

MC
Matt Creed
Bugler Coaches

Brilliant experience working with Martin and Anastasia on our website. We had a tight turnaround, and the team made sure we met it while producing quality work."

BU
Binit UK
Recycling leaders

Ready to go faster?

Whether you need a new website, a migration to our performance stack, or a strategic partner for the long term — let's talk.

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