Field notes from Wallman Solutions on founder notes — what works, what doesn't, and how we build for it.
A plain-English walkthrough of what PageSpeed Insights flags on small business websites, in the order worth fixing them: images, scripts, unused code, caching, hosting, layout shift, and fonts. What each one means and whether you can do it yourself.
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October is budget season for a lot of Omaha businesses, and 'look into custom software' keeps showing up on the list. How to tell whether a tool you can buy will do the job, and what custom software really costs if it won't.
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A slow website usually has one or two causes, and you can narrow it down with a few simple checks on your own phone. What to look at first, how to tell the causes apart, and which fixes you can do yourself.
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Lighthouse and PageSpeed scores sound like developer talk, but they measure something your customers feel: a slow page on a phone. What the numbers mean, what usually drags them down, and what to fix first.
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For a lot of your customers, your website is the first version of you they ever meet. They size it up in about a twentieth of a second, on looks, before reading a word. Why that snap judgment decides who a stranger trusts, and what a professional site earns you.
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For twenty years the goal was to rank near the top of Google so people would click your link. Fewer people are clicking anything now — they ask an assistant and act on the answer. Here's what that shift means for a local business, and the unglamorous work that makes an AI confident enough to name you.
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The big AI labs spent May admitting, in their own way, where the actual value in AI lives. It isn't in the models. It's in the work of fitting them inside a specific business. That work is doable at small-business scale. It just looks different.
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AI agents are the trend of the year, and most of the pitches you're hearing skip the part where automation amplifies whatever it's pointed at. If the process underneath is broken, you don't get cleanup. You get faster mess.
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AI tools have made it faster than ever to ship software. They've also made it faster than ever to ship the kind of bugs you don't catch until production. Here's what changes when there isn't experienced judgment in the chair, and how to spot the difference before you sign.
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Two things changed for me at about the same time: AI is moving fast enough that I needed a real place to keep up with it, and the productivity boost finally made the kind of side builds friends and family had been asking me about for years actually feasible. That's why this company exists.
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