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Ethical Elopements website screenshot.
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Runs on Cloudflare Pages with zero hosting cost. Client pays only for the domain and uploads updates directly.

Ethical Elopements

Colorado elopement operator needed a simple fast site that they own outright. We hand coded a single page static build with an index.html and an /imgs/ directory, wired Calendly on the free plan with deferred load, and shipped a no server stack on Cloudflare Pages. Core Web Vitals turned green and ongoing cost went to zero.

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Status: Live Timeline: 4 days Budget band: GOFP / $500 What changed: Static rebuild for speed, zero hosting, and owner control.

  • Sector Hospitality / Weddings
  • Stack Static HTML, Cloudflare Pages, Calendly free, Google Analytics
  • Performance 92 Perf / 90 A11y / 100 Best / 83 SEO
  • Focus Zero hosting cost, performance, SEO hygiene, owner control
  • Static site
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Zero hosting cost
  • Performance
  • SEO
  • Async build
  • Minimal stack

Context

Ethical Elopements promotes small sustainable weddings. They needed a fast site that they could update themselves without platform costs or plugin sprawl.

Problem

Prior Shopify site carried unnecessary weight and complexity. Content was slow to load and hard to edit. Hosting and maintenance added cost without value.

What we did

Hand coded a single page site using plain HTML and tokens consistent with the brand. Calendly loads via a small JS that defers the widget until user interaction and opens a preloaded iframe popup for instant booking. Built a simple sitemap.xml and robots.txt by hand and added GA in the head. Optimized all images locally with cwebp at a max width of 1920px. Deployed on Cloudflare Pages with client managed uploads via the dashboard.

Audit verified Cloudflare Pages Zero hosting cost Single file build Calendly-free

Proof of performance

Lighthouse verified. 92 performance 90 accessibility 100 best practices 83 seo.

Lighthouse scores for ethicalelopements.com showing 92 performance 90 accessibility 100 best practices 83 seo
92 / 90 / 100 / 83
Lighthouse audit

Captured post launch on Cloudflare Pages. Single page build using index.html and imgs directory. Calendly on free plan. No hosting fees.

Result

Lighthouse scored 92 performance 90 accessibility 100 best practices and 83 seo. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) hit 1.8s, Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) 0.001, and total blocking time 80ms. The site loads fast passes audits and books smoothly with a free Calendly flow.

Status

Live and stable on Cloudflare Pages. Client publishes updates directly through the dashboard. No hosting cost.

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