Case study · Home services

From a 30 to a 99 on mobile — a real before & after.

We put our own handyman business, Special Care Handyman, on the exact system we sell. Here's what measurably changed — no cherry-picking, tested on Google PageSpeed.

3099
Mobile speed score
32.8s~1s
Time to load the main content
1/23/3
AI-readiness (Agentic Browsing)
The situation

A good business with a website working against it

Special Care Handyman serves Coeur d'Alene and North Idaho — real crews, real reviews, plenty of demand. But the website was built on a page-builder that loaded slowly: on a phone, the main content took nearly 33 seconds to appear, and the browser was frozen for 14 seconds of that. For a customer with a leaky faucet at 9pm, that's not a slow site — that's a competitor's phone ringing instead.

Just as important for a modern local business: AI assistants couldn't cleanly read the site. It passed only 1 of 2 AI-readiness checks, so tools like ChatGPT had a harder time understanding and recommending it.

What we did

Rebuilt it on the Specials Digital Systems stack

  • Moved off the slow page-builder onto a fast, hand-structured build hosted on Netlify.
  • Compressed every image to modern formats and stripped the dead weight dragging the load time.
  • Built the AI-search layer in — clean structure, business data, and answer-ready content so assistants can read and cite it.
  • Fixed accessibility and mobile so it works for every visitor on every device.
  • Wired lead capture so an inquiry actually reaches the business, fast.
The results

Measured on Google PageSpeed — before and after

Metric (Google PageSpeed, mobile)BeforeAfter
Performance (speed)3099
Largest Contentful Paint32.8s~1s
Total Blocking Time14,090ms~0ms
Accessibility86100
Best Practices100100
SEO100100
AI Readiness (Agentic Browsing)1 / 23 / 3
Desktop performance100

Tested on Google PageSpeed Insights (Lighthouse), July 2026. Mobile uses Google's throttled test — a mid-range phone on a slow connection. Special Care Handyman is one of the businesses we run ourselves.

"I don't sell websites I wouldn't run myself. This is my own handyman business — same system, same standard I'll build for you."

— Jeremy Specials, Founder
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