
u/zaxwebs

Rebuilt my personal portfolio with SvelteKit (after reswitching to WordPress) [Self-Promo]
I recently rebuilt my personal website/portfolio (zackwebster.com) for my freelance design, development, and AI consulting work. I wanted it to feel fast, minimal, focused, and visually memorable without overdoing it.
The stack is SvelteKit, Tailwind, GSAP, Lucide Svelte, Shadcn Svelte, Resend, and Vercel. I'm looking into integrating Sanity as a CMS.
Some performance considerations: preloading above-the-fold hero images, lazy loading decorative/lower-page images, and handling SEO with a reusable Seo.svelte component. It currently scores 99 for performance and 100 for accessibility, best practices, and SEO on PageSpeed Insights desktop.
There are still a few things I want to improve, like moving Geist from Google Fonts to local .woff2 files, adding more case studies, tuning animations for lower-end devices, adding structured data, and doing another Lighthouse pass after deployment. I also added a few extra pages like /llms.txt, /status, and /roadmap. Happy to answer any questions about the build or decisions. Open to feedback. Thanks!