Working with Dardo from New Zealand
Dardo is a three-person design studio in Bogotá, Colombia, led by its founder, Nicolás Cerón. We work with companies in New Zealand remotely: there is no Dardo office in New Zealand. Calls happen on video, in English or Spanish, and everything we agree goes into a written proposal.
Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, with no daylight saving time. Auckland is 18 hours ahead of Bogotá in January and 17 hours ahead of Bogotá in July, so our office hours barely meet: 9 a.m. in Auckland is 3 p.m. the evening before or 4 p.m. the evening before in Bogotá. Calls go at the start of your day, which is the end of ours, and everything else is in writing.
A project starts with a brief through the contact form, by email to hello@dardo.studio or on WhatsApp. Nicolás replies within one business day with the questions that set the scope. The proposal that follows lists the scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, payment stages, a timeline and the people doing the work, by name.
Quotes are in US dollars, per scope, with no minimum budget. Pricing explains how a quote is built.
What our website speed optimization services include
Every project ends with a Core Web Vitals target per template, measured on real visits, not a Lighthouse score. The proposal names the templates in scope, which of these deliverables apply, who implements each fix and how it is accepted:
- Field-data baseline per template from the Chrome UX Report, Search Console and your analytics
- Lab traces of the slowest templates on an emulated mid-range phone with a slowed CPU
- A fix list ranked by visits affected, metric moved and effort
- A third-party script inventory, each tag with an owner and a decision
- Fixes in your code, theme, CMS or platform settings, or tickets for your developers
- Real-user measurement of LCP, INP and CLS where Google's data is missing
- A before-and-after report from field data, 28 days after the last release
The website speed optimization service page has the full scope, the process and the questions buyers ask.
How fast websites in New Zealand are on phones
In October 2026, 52% of the websites in New Zealand measured by Chrome's user experience report passed all three Core Web Vitals on phones, according to the HTTP Archive. The platform behind a site moves that number:
| Platform | Sites measured | Pass on phones |
|---|---|---|
| Wix | 983 | 85.6% |
| Shopify | 6,036 | 74% |
| Webflow | 682 | 67.9% |
| Framer | 57 | 59.6% |
| WordPress | 9,387 | 52.9% |
| Squarespace | 1,043 | 49.8% |
Speed comes from how a site is built more than from the platform, and Google uses Core Web Vitals in search. The platform speed report has the same numbers for other countries.
Work you can check
Projects from 2026, each with its published result:
- Janus Observatory (Science / Interactive storytelling, 2026). −47.9% 3D models: 8.2 MB instead of 15.8 MB.
- Hyper (AI / Customer intelligence, 2026). USD 10 per customer research report on hypers.dev.
- Gissi (Education / Music & arts, 2026). 34 → 416 Google clicks: 3 months before, 9 days after relaunch.
- superame.lol (Community / Digital products, 2026). 17 currencies in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
- Shiimain (Public data / Territorial intelligence, 2026). 4 days to build, 27 to 30 May 2026.
These are the projects we can show, with their numbers.
Questions before you choose
Does Dardo have an office in New Zealand?
No. Dardo is a three-person studio in Bogotá, Colombia, and works with companies in New Zealand remotely, on video calls, in English or Spanish.
How much does website speed optimization cost with Dardo?
Each project is quoted by scope in an itemized written proposal in US dollars, with no minimum budget.
How much does website speed optimization cost?
There's no published starting price. The quote follows the templates in scope, the platform, third-party scripts, design changes and who implements the fixes. The audit is priced separately, so you can stop after it and work through the list yourselves.
How fast should a website load?
Google's Core Web Vitals set the bar at the 75th percentile of real visits: the main content should appear within 2.5 seconds (Largest Contentful Paint), the page should respond to a tap or click within 200 milliseconds (Interaction to Next Paint), and the layout shouldn't shift by more than 0.1 (Cumulative Layout Shift). Each is measured separately on mobile and desktop.
Sources & further reading
Sources behind this page, with further detail from the original publishers.