Web design in Mullion

Weight is the whole issue

Large images, video backgrounds and heavy scripts are what stop a page arriving on a weak connection. Removing them is the single most useful change most sites here could make.

The essentials — what you do, where you are, opening times and a phone number — should be readable before anything else has loaded.

Testing it properly means opening the site somewhere with one bar of signal, not on office broadband.

Visitors are navigating unfamiliar lanes

Clear directions, a landmark and honest travel times matter on the Lizard, where map applications are confidently wrong about the lanes.

A farming and tourism parish

Mullion serves a scattered rural population as well as visitors, and residents search by their own village and hamlet names.

Questions people here ask

Why does page weight matter here?

Because the signal is genuinely poor. Heavy images and scripts stop the page arriving at all, which loses the customer silently.

What should load first?

What you do, where you are, opening times and a phone number. Everything else can wait for a better connection.

How do we test it?

On a phone with one bar of signal, not on office broadband. The difference is dramatic and easy to miss.