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Next.js Performance Optimization

Speed up your Next.js product — without rewriting everything.

I help SaaS teams fix slow pages, poor Core Web Vitals, sluggish frontend interactions, and backend bottlenecks — so the product feels faster, converts better, and scales more cleanly.

60%

Latency cut

15m → 3m

Build time

CWV

Focused fixes

performance audit — your-saas.app
28Performance0100

Core Web Vitals

LCP4.8s1.2s
INP380ms80ms
CLS0.280.02
All Core Web Vitals passing
LCP 4.8s → 1.2s
INP −300ms
60% latency reduced

— client fit analysis

Who this is for

Not for brochure-site tweaks or cosmetic fixes. This is for teams where product quality directly affects growth.

PROFILE_01
Strong fit

Your SaaS is live but feels slower than it should

You've built and launched. Users are coming in. But the dashboard takes 4 seconds to load, filters stall on every interaction, and something feels off. You're not sure where the problem lives — you just know it's costing you churn you can't fully explain.

Fit score
96%
Live productUnexplained churnSlow page complaints
PROFILE_02
Strong fit

Core Web Vitals are in the red

LCP is over 4 seconds. INP makes buttons feel broken. Your Lighthouse score is something you'd rather not show anyone. You need someone who actually understands what these metrics mean and has already fixed them before — not someone who will just run a report and email you a PDF.

Fit score
91%
LCP > 2.5sINP > 200msPoor Lighthouse score
PROFILE_03
Strong fit

You're preparing for a growth push or fundraise

Marketing spend is ramping. A fundraise deck needs a demo that doesn't embarrass you. Onboarding is about to go live. You know the product isn't ready for 10x the traffic — and now is the right time to fix the foundations before the load arrives.

Fit score
88%
Pre-launch scaleTraffic growth plannedInvestor demos upcoming
PROFILE_04
Strong fit

Performance has been on the roadmap for months

Your team is smart and working hard — but they're heads-down shipping features. 'Fix performance' has been backlogged for six months. You need someone to come in, own the work completely, and hand back a product that is noticeably faster without pulling your team off their sprint.

Fit score
85%
Feature-focused teamPerf backloggedEngineering bandwidth exhausted
NOT A FIT

Brochure websites, cosmetic-only redesigns, or projects where business outcomes don't depend on how the product actually performs.

— active issue detection

The problems I solve

Most products feel 'kind of slow' for a long time before the team realises how much damage it is doing to conversion, retention, and trust. These are the patterns I see most.

Issues found6 total
2 CRITICAL
3 HIGH
1 MEDIUM
CRITICAL

LCP: 4.8s

target < 2.5s

Dashboard loads after users have already doubted you

Users form their first impression in the first 3 seconds. At 4.8s, they've already questioned whether the product works before they've seen anything useful.

CRITICAL

Bundle: 1.4MB JS

target < 250KB

Every user downloads code they will never run on that page

On a 4G connection, 1.4MB of JavaScript adds 2–3 seconds of parse time on top of download time — on every single page load, for every user.

HIGH

INP: 380ms

target < 200ms

Clicks feel broken. Users think something is wrong.

When a button takes 380ms to respond, users tap again. Then again. Then they wonder if their action registered — and that doubt makes your product feel unreliable.

HIGH

API wait: 2.3s avg

target < 500ms

The loading spinner is the most memorable part of the experience

Every cold API hit adds seconds. Strategic caching alone can cut this by 60–80%. The work is not glamorous but the user impact is immediate.

HIGH

CLS: 0.28

target < 0.10

The UI jumps while loading. Trust erodes with every shift.

Layout instability makes a product look hastily built. Even if every feature works correctly, the physical jumping of elements signals a lack of polish.

MEDIUM

CI build: 15 min

target < 4 min

Slow builds slow down your whole team, not just deploys

A 15-minute build means every hotfix, every performance fix, every iteration takes 20 minutes to verify. Across a team, that compounds into hours of lost velocity every week.

— deep analysis

What a performance audit actually looks like

Not a generic Lighthouse screenshot. A systematic, prioritized breakdown of what is slowing your product and exactly what to fix first.

performance-auditrunning

Request waterfall

BeforeAfter
HTML document
Main JS bundle
API /dashboard
API /user
Fonts
Images
Results are validated against real user flows, not just synthetic benchmarks.

— work plan generated

What you get

The goal is not just "better scores." It is a product that feels noticeably faster for real users and is easier for your team to keep fast as you ship.

4 phases · 15 deliverables

UNDERSTAND → FIX → POLISH → PROTECT

UNDERSTAND
01
  • Performance audit of all key pages and user flows
  • Core Web Vitals review — LCP, INP, CLS with real data
  • Bundle-size analysis: what ships vs what actually needs to
  • Rendering strategy review — what is server vs client vs cached
FIX
02
  • Client/server rendering strategy improvements
  • Image, font, and asset loading optimization
  • API and database bottleneck analysis
  • Caching and stale-while-revalidate implementation
  • Expensive component and state-flow cleanup
POLISH
03
  • Dashboard, table, and search performance fixes
  • Build-time and deployment pipeline optimization
  • Interaction and transition performance tuning
PROTECT
04
  • Monitoring setup to catch future regressions
  • Performance budgets and CI/CD guardrails
  • Team handoff with documentation on what was fixed and why