Website rebuild: FCT's own site, mobile Lighthouse from 43 to 79, a newsroom, and a work page cut to two apps
FCT gave its own site the treatment it gives clients: an audit applied, mobile performance from 43 to 79, a newsroom, and a work page cut to what is built.
# Website rebuild: FCT's own site, mobile Lighthouse from 43 to 79, a newsroom, and a work page cut to two apps FCT gave its own site the treatment it gives clients: an audit applied, mobile performance from 43 to 79, a newsroom, and a work page cut to what is built. By Fernando Caudillo Tafoya · FCT Technologies · July 24, 2026 FCT sells three things you can see from the street: a website that looks real, a search structure that gets you found in Google and in AI answers, and software that ships. On 24 July 2026 we pointed all three at our own front door. The tell of a rebuild isn't what a company adds. It's what it's finally willing to cut. ## The audit we'd been putting off Back in June, our own site failed our own technical audit: eighteen findings, the kind we catch on your site in the first pass. A 3D background was loading on every phone that opened the homepage, dragging mobile performance down to a Lighthouse score of 43. Form fields weren't labeled. Galleries couldn't be worked from a keyboard. Fonts loaded from a third party instead of our own servers. We'd written that audit and never applied it. So we applied fifteen of its eighteen findings. The 3D scene no longer loads on mobile at all. Measured on the live site on 7 August 2026, three Lighthouse runs scored 70, 80 and 79: a median of 79, up from 43. That is a lab score under simulated throttling rather than data from real visitors, and the largest element on the page still lands at 4.2 seconds on mobile, which is the next thing to fix. Contrast now meets AA. Every field is labeled, every gallery works from a keyboard, the fonts are self-hosted. The template scaffolding from an earlier way of working came out entirely. ## A newsroom, built to be cited We also gave the site something it didn't have: a place to publish. The newsroom is a real publication, not a blog widget. Every article carries Article and FAQPage structured data and an entry in the site's `llms.txt`, so the writing can be read and quoted by Google's AI overviews and by answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. That's not decoration. Getting cited in AI answers is a service we sell, and structured, quotable writing is how it's earned. The article you're reading is the first proof. ## The confidence signal is what we removed The hardest change was subtraction. Our public work page used to gesture at a fleet of apps in progress. We took it down to two: [Villain Arc](/projects/villainarc/), the strength-training app that shipped to the App Store in February 2026, and Transcription Studio, our on-device transcription app. Both are real. Both have real screens. The rest come back to the page when they're shipped and imaged, not before. *Updated 31 August 2026: Villain Arc's App Store listing has since been withdrawn while the app is rebuilt onto FCT's own account and sync platform, so it cannot be downloaded today.* A page that lists everything you're working on reads as ambition. A page that shows only what's true reads as proof. Precise availability is what we trade on with every client, and now the front door says it too. The first site we build for a business is the start of its operating layer, not the end of the relationship. We treated our own the same way.FCT sells three things you can see from the street: a website that looks real, a search structure that gets you found in Google and in AI answers, and software that ships. On 24 July 2026 we pointed all three at our own front door.
The tell of a rebuild isn’t what a company adds. It’s what it’s finally willing to cut.
The audit we’d been putting off
Back in June, our own site failed our own technical audit: eighteen findings, the kind we catch on your site in the first pass. A 3D background was loading on every phone that opened the homepage, dragging mobile performance down to a Lighthouse score of 43. Form fields weren’t labeled. Galleries couldn’t be worked from a keyboard. Fonts loaded from a third party instead of our own servers.
We’d written that audit and never applied it. So we applied fifteen of its eighteen findings. The 3D scene no longer loads on mobile at all. Measured on the live site on 7 August 2026, three Lighthouse runs scored 70, 80 and 79: a median of 79, up from 43. That is a lab score under simulated throttling rather than data from real visitors, and the largest element on the page still lands at 4.2 seconds on mobile, which is the next thing to fix. Contrast now meets AA. Every field is labeled, every gallery works from a keyboard, the fonts are self-hosted. The template scaffolding from an earlier way of working came out entirely.
A newsroom, built to be cited
We also gave the site something it didn’t have: a place to publish. The newsroom is a real publication, not a blog widget. Every article carries Article and FAQPage structured data and an entry in the site’s llms.txt, so the writing can be read and quoted by Google’s AI overviews and by answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
That’s not decoration. Getting cited in AI answers is a service we sell, and structured, quotable writing is how it’s earned. The article you’re reading is the first proof.
The confidence signal is what we removed
The hardest change was subtraction. Our public work page used to gesture at a fleet of apps in progress. We took it down to two: Villain Arc, the strength-training app that shipped to the App Store in February 2026, and Transcription Studio, our on-device transcription app. Both are real. Both have real screens. The rest come back to the page when they’re shipped and imaged, not before.
Updated 31 August 2026: Villain Arc’s App Store listing has since been withdrawn while the app is rebuilt onto FCT’s own account and sync platform, so it cannot be downloaded today.
A page that lists everything you’re working on reads as ambition. A page that shows only what’s true reads as proof. Precise availability is what we trade on with every client, and now the front door says it too.
The first site we build for a business is the start of its operating layer, not the end of the relationship. We treated our own the same way.
Frequently asked questions
What changed on the FCT Technologies website?
Three things. Fifteen of the eighteen findings from a June technical audit went in, most importantly that the heavy 3D background no longer loads on mobile, along with contrast, form-label, keyboard and self-hosted-font fixes. Three Lighthouse runs against the live site on 7 August 2026 put mobile performance at a median of 79, up from 43; that is a lab score under simulated throttling, not data from real visitors. A newsroom launched at /newsroom with Article and FAQPage structured data, so the writing can be read by search engines and AI answer engines. And the public work page was cut to the two apps FCT has built and imaged: Villain Arc, which shipped to the App Store in February 2026 and whose listing is withdrawn during a platform rebuild, and Transcription Studio, which is built, in daily internal use, and never listed.
Why show fewer projects, not more?
Because precise availability is the confidence signal. A page listing a fleet of half-finished apps reads as ambition. A page showing the two that are built and imaged, with their availability stated exactly, reads as proof. We took the rest down until each one is real and imaged. The site now says exactly what is true today, which is the same standard we apply to your claims.
Does FCT run the same systems it sells?
Yes. The website rebuild, the search structure and the newsroom are the same deliverables FCT builds for clients: a marketing site, GEO and SEO structure, and an owned place to publish. Applying them to our own front door first is the point. A standard is easier to trust when the company holds itself to it.