Algorank — web design and SEO agency in Ottawa

Stack

The technology we build on, and why we chose it.

Every stack decision is made against three questions: is it fast on a phone, can it be maintained in five years, and does it help the site rank. Novelty on its own has never won an argument here.

01

Front end

Server-rendered React gives crawlers complete HTML on first request and gives visitors a page that paints fast on a phone over LTE. TypeScript keeps a five-year-old codebase safe to change.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TanStack Start
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
02

Content management

We match the CMS to the editing team. A four-page service site does not need a database of plugins; a publisher with three writers a week does need real editorial workflow.

  • Headless CMS
  • Sanity
  • Contentful
  • WordPress
  • Markdown pipelines
03

Commerce

Catalogue size, tax rules and fulfilment decide the platform, not preference. We migrate product URLs and structured data so category rankings survive the move.

  • Shopify
  • Headless commerce
  • WooCommerce
  • Stripe
04

Backend & cloud

Edge-hosted, globally cached, with backups and staging as standard. No shared hosting, no mystery cPanel, no single server that takes the business offline.

  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • Supabase
  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel
  • AWS
05

AI layer

AI features are grounded in your documented services and pricing rules, with refusal behaviour and human handoff — so the assistant never invents a price or a policy.

  • Retrieval over your own content
  • Assistant guardrails
  • Rule-based estimators
  • Lead scoring
  • Conversation logging
06

Search & measurement

Every build ships with conversion tracking verified outside the ad platform, so reported leads match the ones that reach your inbox.

  • Google Search Console
  • GA4
  • Tag Manager
  • Looker Studio
  • Ahrefs
  • Semrush
  • Core Web Vitals field data

Performance budget

The targets every build is held to before launch.

These are pass/fail gates, not aspirations. A site that misses them does not go live.

Largest Contentful Paint

under 2.5s

Mobile, field data, 75th percentile

Interaction to Next Paint

under 200ms

Measured on real devices, not lab only

Cumulative Layout Shift

under 0.1

Media dimensions reserved at build time

Uptime

99.9%+

Edge hosting with independent monitoring

Accessibility

WCAG 2.1 AA intent

Semantic HTML, contrast, keyboard paths

Three rules we do not bend.

01

You own everything

Code repository, hosting account, domain, analytics and CMS are yours from day one. Leaving Algorank should cost you nothing but a transfer email.

02

No page builders

Drag-and-drop builders bloat the DOM and slow the render. Every layout on the sites we ship is hand-written, which is why they load the way they do.

03

Boring where it matters

We use proven tools for anything the business depends on and reserve the novel work for the parts that create advantage, like the AI layer.

Curious what we would build for you?