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      <title>Core Web Vitals in 2026: What Actually Moves the Number</title>
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      <description>LCP, INP and CLS explained with real thresholds, why lab and field scores disagree, and the exact checklist that moves each metric, ordered by impact.</description>
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      <title>How fast are Czech small-business websites? We measured 231 of them (2026)</title>
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      <description>A website builder covers a landing page in a weekend for €15 a month. Custom web development starts at €800 and buys you speed, ownership and logic a template cannot do. Here is where the line sits.</description>
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      <description>A headless CMS separates content from design. It pays off for multi-language sites and frequent editors, and it is overkill for a five-page site. Here is how to tell which one you are.</description>
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      <description>A week-by-week website rebuild timeline, what stretches it, how to protect your SEO during the move, and website redesign cost ranges for 2026.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>One shoot day, a month of content: how we plan a reels batch</title>
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      <description>Filming every week burns people out and looks it. Here is the exact process we use to get four weeks of short-form video from a single shoot day: the prep, the shot list, and the edit.</description>
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      <title>What a sub-second load time actually does to conversion: our numbers, then the research</title>
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      <description>We rebuilt a factory site to load in under a second and organic traffic went up 5x with no ad spend. Here is our data first, then the studies that back it, then how you actually get there.</description>
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      <title>Astro vs WordPress for business sites: an engineer's honest comparison</title>
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      <description>We build in Astro and we still put clients on WordPress sometimes. Here is the actual decision rule: who edits the content, how often, and what the site has to talk to.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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