Core Web Vitals in 2026: What Still Matters
Only 48% of mobile sites pass all three Core Web Vitals in 2026. INP is the metric most fail. And fast pages now correlate 3x with AI citations. Here is what still matters and what to ship.
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Only 48% of mobile sites pass all three Core Web Vitals in 2026. INP is the metric most fail. And fast pages now correlate 3x with AI citations. Here is what still matters and what to ship.
61% of SaaS companies will run hybrid pricing by year-end 2026. Pure per-seat is dying for AI products and pure usage-based is scary for buyers. Here is the 2026 update on which model fits which business.
Across audited engagements in 2026, three agent patterns ship reliably and one keeps failing. The three: routing, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer. The one: peer-to-peer multi-agent. Anthropic's guidance backs this. Here is when each fits and where each fails.
Cart abandonment is stuck at 70.22% across 50 studies. Mobile is 80%. Ecommerce takes 69-77% of every ADA website lawsuit filed. The patterns that move the conversion needle in 2026 are not new - most sites still get them wrong.
After 12 years and a few hundred audited projects, custom software project failure modes barely change. They take new shapes. AI-amplified tech debt is the 2026 entry, and it shows up in launches that look fine and decay in six months. Here are the ten.
By March 2026 there are 10,000+ public MCP servers. Most teams should never write one. The 10% who should are usually the ones with auth, audit, or proprietary data needs that the catalog cannot meet. Here is the build vs buy decision.
Portfolio screenshots are the worst way to evaluate a 2026 web design agency. AI search rewrote the rules, ADA lawsuits crossed 3,948 in 2025, and the line between a good launch and a lawsuit is process. Here is the framework we wish prospects used on us.
A real 14-week SaaS sprint, broken down week by week. The brief, the team, the Next.js + Supabase + Stripe + Resend stack, the AI-augmented engineering pattern, what shipped on time, what got cut, and the metrics we hit at launch.
Most agencies talk about AI. Few will tell you what their actual day looks like. Here is the honest version from inside our shop in 2026 - the tools, the prompts, the moments it works, the moments it fails, and what it has done to the 2024 baseline.