Case study

A 24-hour service site, where availability is the entire proposition

When the offer is "any hour", the site has to make that credible at 3am on a phone, to someone who is not in a mood to browse.

Client
24 Hours London
Market
UK
Role
Sole developer — build, deployment, technical SEO
Live site
24hrs.london

The problem

Round-the-clock services are found in urgent moments. The visitor is not researching; they want to know that someone will answer now, and they want to reach them in one tap.

Urgent traffic is also almost entirely mobile, frequently on a poor connection, and unforgiving of anything that takes time to load. A slow page in this context is not a lower conversion rate — it is a call placed to somebody else.

What I built

A responsive site with the availability claim and the contact route as the first things visible, and click-to-call given priority over every other action.

A full technical SEO setup during the build rather than after it: crawlable structure, meta and schema, sitemap, and Search Console configured at launch so the site went live indexed rather than as a blank shell.

End-to-end deployment on cPanel — domain, SSL, email with authenticated sending, and pre-launch QA — so the client had one supplier rather than a build handed over to somebody else to host.

Decisions worth explaining

Page weight was treated as a hard constraint rather than a target. On urgent-intent traffic the tolerance for waiting is close to zero, which makes performance a commercial decision rather than a technical one.

Technical SEO was part of the build rather than a later phase. Launching a site and adding SEO six months later, once it becomes obvious nobody is arriving, wastes the six months and usually requires redoing the structure.

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