Coalition Glass: from a one-page site to a full one, planned and built in WordPress
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 100
- Best practices
- 96
- SEO
- 100
Out of 100 in Google PageSpeed Insights, for the homepage on a phone, November 8, 2026
Coalition Glass, a sister company of Enclos, started out with a single page. I planned its full site and built it in WordPress, with a design by Calhoun Design. Now every project has a page of its own, and the homepage scores 100 for performance on a phone in PageSpeed Insights.
- Client
- Coalition Glass, a sister company of Enclos
- Work
- A full site, from sitemap to launch
- Role
- Strategy and development
- Design
- Calhoun Design
- Year
- 2026
- Site
- coalitionglass.com
A new brand, one step at a time
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2022 The logo
Calhoun Design created it for the new brand.
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2023 A one-page site
Calhoun designed a single page to launch the brand. It had no examples of work and little else to read.
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2026 The full site
Pages for Coalition’s projects, expertise, news and jobs, designed by Calhoun and built by me.
What the new site does
I started with the sitemap and wireframes, then built the site in WordPress.
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Projects, filtered by expertise
Every project has its own page, and the project list filters by kind of work. Each expertise page links to that list with its filter already set, so someone reading about one kind of work lands on examples of it.
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Video at the top
Pages, projects and news posts can open with video. A still image shows first, and it stays in place if the video can’t play.
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Installation videos
Coalition asked for a way to show its installation videos, so I built a video block for them.
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Job openings from ApplicantPro
Open jobs come straight from ApplicantPro, the hiring system Coalition uses, so nothing has to be posted twice.
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Search and privacy
Every page’s description in search results comes from its own summary, and the cookie banner is styled to match the brand.
Coalition’s own team adds new projects, news and job openings.
How it scores on a phone
PageSpeed Insights loads a page the way a mid-range phone on a slow connection would, then scores it out of 100 in four areas.
On November 8, 2026, the Coalition Glass homepage scored 100 for performance, accessibility and SEO, and 96 for best practices. Its main content showed in 1.7 seconds.
There’s no before and after here. The old site was a single page, so comparing the two wouldn’t tell you much.
Perfmatters strips out the CSS a page doesn’t use, and Cloudflare keeps a copy of each page close to whoever is visiting.
One catch along the way
That CSS cleanup was also stripping the brand’s Adobe Fonts for anyone who wasn’t logged in, so the site looked right to anyone logged in and wrong to everyone else. I fixed it, and every visitor now sees the brand’s own type.
A screenshot of a single test, cropped and otherwise unedited. Scores move a little from one test to the next. Test the homepage yourself.
More for the Enclos companies
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Enclos
A Calhoun Design client for more than ten years. I got its Projects page showing 5.6 times faster on a phone in PageSpeed Insights, without a redesign.
How the Projects page got 5.6× faster -
ETS
Acquired by Enclos. I rebuilt its aging site from the ground up, and the homepage shows its main content 12 times faster on a phone in PageSpeed Insights.
How the new ETS site got 12× faster