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Every change to gosmartr.co.uk that’s worth telling you about. We ship continuously; this is what makes the cut. Want what we’re working on right now? See /now. Or follow along via RSS.

Coming up · 5 on the roadmap

  1. Q3 2026Planned

    Search across all content

    Wire MeiliSearch (or Algolia) into the ⌘K palette so visitors can full-text-search journal posts, glossary entries, case studies, and changelog entries from one input. Today's palette only matches titles + tags; the next pass searches body content too.

  2. June 2026Planned

    Newsletter archive

    Past issues at /journal/newsletter. The double-opt-in flow ships people the welcome immediately; archived issues let prospects browse what they'd be receiving before subscribing.

  3. June 2026Planned

    Stripe receipt + invoice downloads

    Surface the visitor's billing history inside /dashboard with one-click PDF downloads. Stripe already issues invoices over email; this just makes them findable later without inbox-trawling.

  4. SoonPlanned

    More glossary terms

    The glossary is at 26 entries. Targeting 50+ — covering more SEO + a11y vocabulary, with a per-category index so the page is browseable by topic rather than just alphabetically.

    See it
  5. SoonPlanned

    Per-project change tracking

    Each case study at /work/<slug> picks up its own mini-changelog of post-launch changes — what we shipped, when, and what moved. Compounds the case study from "what we built" into "what we keep building".

Shipped · 12 entries

  1. Shipped

    Tarnshire joins the work

    Added Tarnshire — a premium domestic-cleaning brand for South Manchester — to selected work. Built from naming to live Stripe revenue: coverage-gated booking, published-rate payments, and a same-cleaner promise. Our first case study that ships a real booking-and-payments product, not a marketing site.

    See it
  2. Shipped

    /audit comparison view

    The free site audit at /audit now accepts a second URL and renders both audits side-by-side with deltas. Each PSI score, metric, and Web Vitals reading is paired with the competitor's, plus a synthesis line up top — "You're 7 points behind on Performance — 0.6s slower than them on LCP." Two parallel calls to PageSpeed Insights, cached for an hour by URL.

    See it
  3. Shipped

    /now and /changelog

    Two transparency surfaces: /now is a single dense snapshot of what the studio is actually doing — currently shipping, London time, bookings, what's on the desk. /changelog is the page you're reading. Built so repeat visitors have something to come back to.

    See it
  4. Fixed

    Eat our own dog food (a11y pass)

    The studio site failed several checks in our own /audit tool. Fixed the form-label and ARIA-role findings, brought heading order back into sequence on the Narrative section, and synced the schema.org socials with the visible footer. Performance pass next.

  5. Shipped

    Calendar booking

    /book is live with a Cal.com inline embed wrapped in editorial copy. Replaces the old Calendly link that nobody clicked. Picks up naturally after the audit: "saw your scores, want to talk?"

    See it
  6. Shipped

    Programmatic SEO foundation

    Shared <SEOLandingPage> component drives /web-design-london and /web-design-for-saas as proof. Pattern lets us ship more focus pages in ~80 lines each — Manchester, Edinburgh, restaurants, fintech all queued.

    See it
  7. Shipped

    PDF report export

    Client reports now render at /dashboard/reports/[id] with a print stylesheet that strips dashboard chrome for clean A4 PDFs. Filenames default to "GoSmartR — <report title>" so saved files make sense outside the dashboard.

  8. Shipped

    Welcome email on signup

    New dashboard users get a 'three things to know' email immediately. Editorial shell, primary CTA to /pricing, secondary to /book. Fire-and-forget — a missed welcome email doesn't block the redirect to the dashboard.

  9. Shipped

    Free website audit

    Paste any URL into /audit, get a Lighthouse-grade report on a mobile-throttled connection. Same audit Google ranks pages with. No email gate — the report is the offer, not the bait.

    See it
  10. Shipped

    Pricing as relationship stages

    Rebuilt /pricing from "three tiers" to "Foundation → Acceleration → Scale" — a relationship that compounds rather than three options on a shelf. Foundation now reads as the deliberate starting point, not the cheap one.

    See it
  11. Fixed

    CLS = 3.96 → 0.018

    Speed Insights flagged a Cumulative Layout Shift score of 3.96 (forty times the "good" threshold). Traced it to SplitText swapping plain text for inline-block spans on hydration. Now we render identical markup on server and client. CLS dropped to 0.018.

  12. Shipped

    Vercel Analytics + Speed Insights

    Mounted both alongside Plausible — Vercel for deployment-aware metrics + Core Web Vitals per route, Plausible for cookieless referrer/UTM tracking. Adjusted CSP to whitelist va.vercel-scripts.com so the scripts can actually load.

That’s the lot — for now

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