This website: a fast, search-ready studio site on Cloudflare Workers

The site you are reading is a small project, and you can inspect all of it yourself. View the source, run a Lighthouse audit, or submit the contact form.

Goals

• Load fast on a phone over a slow connection
• Give search engines everything they need to understand each page
• Cost almost nothing to run
• Let us publish articles and case studies by adding a Markdown file

What we built

Prerendered pages

Every page is rendered at build time and served from Cloudflare's network. The only code that runs per request is the contact form endpoint.

Search fundamentals on every page

• A unique title, description and canonical URL per page
• A sitemap and robots file generated from the content
• Structured data: organization, service, FAQ, article and breadcrumb markup
• A generated social sharing image
• Semantic HTML with one top-level heading per page

Content as Markdown

Articles and case studies are Markdown files in the repository. A build step converts them to HTML, so no content is fetched or parsed when a visitor loads a page.

A contact form without an email provider

The form posts to an endpoint on the same Worker, which validates the input and sends the inquiry through Cloudflare Email Routing. There is no third-party email service and no API key to manage. A hidden field and a minimum fill time filter out automated submissions.

Problems we ran into

Moving from a conventional Node.js host to Workers surfaced three issues worth knowing about:

1. No file system at runtime. Our first version read content files on each request. We moved that work to build time.
2. Prerendered pages and form actions. Form submissions to a prerendered page were being answered from the page cache, so the form logic never ran. We moved the form to its own endpoint.
3. Static files with an .html extension were redirected to a path without the extension, which broke search engine ownership verification. We changed the asset handling to serve them at their exact path.

Results

Measured with Lighthouse on mobile settings during development:

• SEO: 100
• Accessibility: 100
• Best practices: 100
• Performance: 94 to 98, depending on the page

You can run the same audit on any page of this site to check the current numbers.

Technology

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Email Routing.

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