What kinds of businesses does nanushi work with?

nanushi works with businesses of all sizes — from local cafes and retail shops to tech startups and established companies. If you need a website, web app, mobile app, or AI integration, nanushi can help.

How long does a project take?

A simple marketing website can be delivered in 1–2 weeks. A full web application or mobile app typically takes 4–12 weeks depending on scope.

Does nanushi build AI chatbots?

Yes. nanushi builds custom AI assistants and chatbots using Claude (Anthropic) and OpenAI. These can be integrated into websites, mobile apps, or internal business tools.

Where is nanushi based?

nanushi is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The team works remotely and serves clients globally.

What is a nanushi mission?

A mission is a 6-week collaborative React Native app-building challenge. Teams of developers work together to ship a real, production-quality mobile app.

why ottawa businesses are losing customers to slow websites

you worked hard to get someone to your website. maybe they found you on google, maybe a friend referred them, maybe they saw your ad on instagram. and then — nothing. they hit your homepage, waited three seconds for it to load, and left before they ever saw what you offer.

this is happening to ottawa businesses every single day, and most owners have no idea.

the numbers are hard to ignore

google has published data on this repeatedly, and it's consistent: 53% of mobile visitors abandon a site that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. on mobile — which is how most people browse — the average site takes around 8 seconds to fully load. that's not slow, that's a leaky bucket.

for local businesses in ottawa, the stakes are higher than you think. when someone searches "best italian restaurant kanata" or "plumber nepean," google's algorithm now factors in page experience, including load speed, as a ranking signal. a slow site doesn't just lose the customers it gets — it actively reduces how many people find you in the first place.

a 2023 study from portent found that conversion rates drop by roughly 4.42% for every additional second of load time between seconds 0 and 5. for a small business doing $300,000 in annual revenue with meaningful web traffic, shaving two seconds off load time could mean tens of thousands of dollars in recovered sales. that's not a rounding error.

why ottawa sites are especially at risk

the city has a strong professional services economy — law firms, consultants, contractors, restaurants, clinics. many of these businesses built their first website 5–10 years ago on platforms that made sense at the time: old wordpress themes loaded with plugins, squarespace templates with heavy animations, or custom sites that were never properly maintained.

technology moves fast. what was acceptable in 2016 is often painfully slow today, especially on mobile networks. bell and rogers may cover most of the ncr, but plenty of people in barrhaven, riverside south, or kanata industrial are loading your site on 4G LTE — not a home fibre connection.

add to that: a lot of wordpress sites in this city are running outdated plugins, unoptimized images, and hosting plans that made sense when they were cheap but now serve pages from slow shared servers. it's death by a thousand cuts.

how to tell if your site has a problem

the fastest way to find out is free. go to pagespeed insights and enter your url. google will score your site 0–100 on both mobile and desktop and tell you exactly what's slowing it down.

a score above 90 is good. 50–90 is okay but improvable. below 50, you have a real problem — and if you're a local business depending on walk-in or call-in customers, that problem is costing you money right now.

common issues you'll see flagged:

images not compressed — a photo taken on an iphone is 3–6mb. your site should be serving that as a 100–200kb webp. the difference is enormous.
render-blocking scripts — third-party tools like old chat widgets, marketing pixels, and outdated google analytics implementations add seconds to load time before a single line of your page even appears.
no caching — if your server sends the full page to every visitor from scratch, you're doing far more work than you need to.
shared hosting — budget hosting plans are fine for hobby sites. not for a business trying to compete in google search results.

practical fixes that actually move the needle

you don't need to rebuild your entire site to make a meaningful difference.

start with images. this is the single highest-impact, lowest-effort fix on most small business sites. compress every image using a tool like squoosh or install a plugin like shortpixel if you're on wordpress. converting jpegs and pngs to webp format typically cuts file sizes by 30–80%.

upgrade your hosting. moving from shared hosting to a plan with a proper cdn (content delivery network) is often the difference between a 4-second and a 1.5-second load time. services like cloudflare offer free cdn plans that can meaningfully improve speed without changing your site at all.

cut unnecessary plugins. if you're on wordpress, go through your plugin list and ask yourself honestly: do i actually use this? every active plugin adds code that runs on every page load.

use a faster theme or platform. some wordpress themes are built with so many features crammed in that they're inherently slow. sometimes the right answer is a lighter theme or a rebuild on a modern stack.

the bottom line for ottawa business owners

your website is often the first impression a potential customer gets of your business. in a city as competitive as ottawa — whether you're in the glebe, westboro, or out in orleans — you can't afford to lose half your visitors before they even see your offering.

check your pagespeed score today. if it's below 70 on mobile, you have a genuine business problem, not just a tech problem. the fix might be simpler than you think.

if you'd like help identifying what's slowing down your site, nanushi offers free initial assessments. we work with ottawa businesses to build fast, modern sites that actually convert.