News portal that keeps readers reading

The brief we set ourselves

A news portal lives or dies on the article page. A reader arrives from Google or social, on a phone, on a train, with two bars of signal. If the story is not readable in a second, they are gone before the first paragraph. Most Czech news sites lose that second to ad scripts, autoplaying video and a layout that jumps as images load.

This showcase demonstrates how we build for that reader: the article renders as fast HTML with the headline and lead visible immediately, images reserve their space so nothing shifts, and the third-party scripts that usually sink a news site load after the words, never before.

Decisions worth copying

• Article first, everything else after. The headline, lead and body ship in the first response. Related stories, comments and analytics hydrate later, so reading never waits on them. Every extra script gets a budget, or it does not go in.
• Zero layout shift. Images, embeds and ad slots all reserve their dimensions up front, so the paragraph you started reading stays where it was. A Cumulative Layout Shift of 0 is the difference between a news site and a jumping mess. Good for readers, and Google measures it too.
• Built for Google News and search. Clean article markup, proper NewsArticle structured data, hreflang across Czech, English and German, and category feeds that both readers and crawlers understand. That is most of how a story gets discovered. More on our SEO page.

The numbers

Speed figures on this page are measured, not promised. Run the article through PageSpeed Insights yourself. That score holds under a real newsroom load, because it comes from the architecture and a disciplined script budget, not from cleanup after launch.

In practice, a publishing platform of this depth, with an editorial CMS and multilingual feeds, starts around CZK 25,000 depending on scope. Want the same for your title? Start with web design, check the pricing, or ask us directly via the contact page.