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What we learned shipping a ferry timetable

Weak signal, tired parents and rain: notes from building a site that has to work on a pier.

Case notes

8 min read

Written by

Rafi Okonjo

Head of Engineering

Published

The Kestrel Ferries timetable had one rule: answer the question before the page finishes loading.

What we cut

Web fonts, a hero video and every third-party script we could find.

What we kept

A tiny page, a cached timetable and a status line written by a human.

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