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How we built
the site
you're on.

An agency that ranks other companies needs a site that ranks itself. We hand-built The 66th with no page builder underneath, so it loads fast, reads cleanly to Google and AI, and shows the work instead of describing it.

6 min readVancouver, BCWebsite BuildBy Liam Lytton
Built WithAstro
Page BuilderNone
Pre-renderedYes
– The build

The site we shipped.

Livethe66th.com
The 66th website homepage, an SEO and GEO agency in Vancouver
– 01

The brief.

We tell clients that speed and clean code are the floor for getting found, so our own site could not run on a heavy page builder that ships slow, bloated pages. It also had to do a hard thing: prove four services at once, SEO, AI search, website builds and consulting, without turning into a wall of text.

– 02

The approach.

Build it by hand, render the content first, show the proof, and keep the motion in check.

PILLAR 01

Hand-built, no builder.

Coded from scratch on a fast foundation, so every page ships lean instead of dragging a theme behind it.

PILLAR 02

Content before scripts.

The page renders its words first, so Google and AI read the whole thing without waiting on JavaScript.

PILLAR 03

Show, don't tell.

Live client numbers and a filterable case study system instead of a pile of adjectives.

PILLAR 04

Motion with restraint.

A hero that animates clean and a few considered moments, never at the cost of speed.

– 03

What we built.

The detail behind the site you are reading on.

3.1

A hand-coded site on Astro.

No page builder, no heavy theme. The site ships static, fast pages that load their content before the browser finishes, which is the same floor we hold every client build to.

3.2

Four services, one engine.

SEO, AI search, website builds and consulting framed as one compounding system, with a services carousel that keeps the range tight instead of sprawling.

3.3

A case study system that shows the work.

Filterable by discipline and industry, with live client numbers doing the convincing, so a visitor sees outcomes rather than claims.

3.4

Motion that earns its keep.

A hero that rises clean on load, a particle field, and a handful of considered animations, all gated so they never slow the first paint.

– 04

What shipped.

The SiteLiveHand-built, designed and launched.
Built WithAstroStatic, fast, no page builder.
RenderContent-firstReadable before scripts run.
Services4Framed as one compounding engine.
Case StudiesFilterableLive client numbers on show.
Primary ActionBook a CallOne clear next step throughout.
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