tl;dr: The headless React frontend Flexpress developed immediately boosts critical site health indicators including page load time and Google Lighthouse scores. Flexpress has proven on hundreds of domains to improve search engine authority and organic traffic. Flexpress features like content blocks with structured data optimize content for search engines, while schema-enabled templates build necessary trust with both readers and search engines.
Google has made its position on site speed clear: overall reader experience is an impactful variable, and faster sites (particularly on mobile) are likely to perform better in search results. According to Google, 53% of users will leave a site if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Moreover, speed—particularly Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)—is an important component of Google’s Core Web Vitals measurements, which Google uses to assess overall site health.
Brands that move to Flexpress see page load times improve by more than 50% compared to the previous year, and Core Web Vitals Scores for some clients improve more than 100%.
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Flexpress's secret for fast-loading sites comes via the platform’s headless architecture. By separating the creator backend from the presentation layer, Flexpress can optimize each piece individually. As a result, publishers see faster site speeds, more consistent performance, and improved user experience. In fact, Amazon Web Services media and entertainment division, responsible for hosting data for billions of monthly publisher pageviews, recommends headless architecture as the preferred technology platform for media and creators.
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Web schema and structured data are vital for any well-ranked site, yet technical hurdles prevent many publishers from enjoying the benefits. Schema markup is a form of structured data that indicates to search engines a page’s purpose, its elements, and any special components that the search engine can use for display in rich results, those prominent, interactive elements on search results pages.
Flexpress offers several forms of schema baked directly into the platform, including page type schema like News Article, as well as component schema like Breadcrumb, How-To, and Recipe.
Consider Flexpress's Recipe block enabled with schema, for instance. This custom Gutenberg block contains many fields that not only inform the presentation of the reader-facing frontend but also display in schema markup format in the page source read by search crawlers.
For recipes, which include fields like cook time, prep time, yield, nutrition information, ingredients, instructions, dietary restrictions, and more, publishers can reveal as much vital information to Google as they want, in a crawl-friendly language that makes content more discoverable. All writers and editors need to do is type their content as usual, plus there’s no extra work for developers.
Publishers that prove their E-E-A-T (Google’s initialism for Experience, Expertise, Authority, and Trust) can reap big rewards in the form of higher Google rankings. Flexpress's templates and blocks can underscore with Google each creator’s authority as well as a website’s impact on, and commitment to, truth. Google considers the expertise and authority of sites and authors, and Flexpress's custom templates help publishers solve for both.
For example, Flexpress encourages the use of a robust Author Page template with fields for experience, education, and notable work published elsewhere. In addition, Flexpress makes use of on-article author bios, custom bylines (such as editor and fact checker), and Trust Badge blocks, that tell readers about research methodology.
Flexpress helps publishers let their content truly shine by leveraging templates, blocks, and schema to showcase their best assets to Google in a digestible way. Fast site speed is a given due to Flexpress headless architecture and image optimization and pays dividends in the form of improved Core Web Vital metrics. No fancy footwork, no extra editorial lift, just a supercharged site that helps brands prove to Google that their content is as good as they know it is.
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