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Named clients, dated timelines, numbers you can re-check yourself. Every case study on this page is drawn from real work; if we can't verify a figure, we don't publish it.

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The Work

Three Studies, Three Kinds of Proof

A new site that ranked in weeks, our own site held to the standard we sell, and a client who has stayed for nearly twenty years.

Lockerfella · Independent locksmith, Brewood & West Midlands

Lockerfella: #1 on Google, ChatGPT and Gemini in 21 Days, With Zero Backlinks

We launched a brand-new site for a one-man locksmith on 8 April 2026. Nineteen days later ChatGPT and Gemini ranked it first for "Brewood locksmith". Two days after that, Google followed. Zero backlinks, zero domain history. This is the full build, the decisions behind it, and what happened in the May 2026 core update.

  • #1 on Google, ChatGPT & Gemini
  • 21 days from launch to triple #1
  • 100/100 mobile PageSpeed, all 4 metrics
  • 0 backlinks needed
Read the full case study about Lockerfella Locksmiths

Press Forge · Our own site: pressforge.co.uk

How We Got Our Own Agency Site to PageSpeed 100

Agencies tell you speed matters, then run their own sites at 70. In April 2026 we took pressforge.co.uk through a full performance pass: 2.8 MB cut from the image library, 400 KiB of unused reCAPTCHA JavaScript deferred, per-page CSS bundles. Every figure is from this site's own build history, and you can re-test it yourself right now.

  • 2.8 MB cut from the image library
  • 400 KiB of unused JS deferred per form page
  • ~58 KB global CSS bundle, minified
  • 100 the score the techniques target
Read the full case study about Press Forge: PageSpeed 100

Richard Antrobus · The Employment Law Solicitors

Nearly 20 Years, One Law Firm: What Long-Term WordPress Care Actually Looks Like

Richard Antrobus has been with us since the mid-2000s. Multiple full rebuilds, thousands of pages of UK employment-law content, and a site that now draws very heavy organic search traffic. This is what a client relationship looks like when it outlasts the iPhone, including the upgrade we talked him out of.

  • ~20 yrs continuous client relationship
  • Multiple full site rebuilds across that span
  • Thousands of pages of employment-law content
  • £10/mo the upgrade we chose over £30/mo
Read the full case study about The Employment Law Solicitors

How We Write These (and What We Won't Do)

Every case study here follows the same rules as the rest of this site, set out on our editorial standards page. Clients are named only with consent. Dates come from launch records and Search Console, not memory. Where a client's business data is private, we say so and keep it out, even when the number would flatter us.

We also publish what didn't work. The Lockerfella study includes the head-term ranking it has not won yet, because a case study that only reports wins is an advert. New studies are added when the next project produces results worth writing about, and not before.

Mark McNeece, Founder & Lead Developer at Press Forge

Every case study on this page was built and written by Mark McNeece, founder of Press Forge and 365i.

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“Just the best I've ever used! Our sites run so fast, and they bend over backwards to help when we get in trouble and don't know what to do. We'd be lost without them now.”
Reiss Johnson
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“Really impressed with Press Forge. Their website alone shows how professional and clean their work is. You can tell they've got loads of experience and actually understand what businesses need, not just how to make something look nice.”
Sean Hamilton
Owner, Lockerfella Locksmiths
Google review, April 2026
“I approached Mark at 365i to ask him to migrate my website to their server since my website was very slow on my existing server. Not only did he carry out the migration within 24 hours but he actually completely redesigned my website free-of-charge to a standard that I was blown away by.”
Victor Bluett
Google review via our sister brand 365i, December 2020

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