WATDA is a Korean restaurant at the back of Ponsonby Central, Auckland. Their Squarespace site cost money every month, loaded slowly, and told Google almost nothing about the business — the structured data behind the page didn't even carry an address. We rebuilt it by hand.
Visit the live site ↗︎Lighthouse SEO, measured on the live site — 17 Jul 2026.
Our GEO audit engine, before → after. How findable the restaurant is when people ask AI instead of Google.
Hero and gallery photos cut from ~2MB each to ~120KB — same photos, properly optimised.
Off the Squarespace subscription, onto fast global hosting that costs nothing to run.
Most restaurant websites are rented, not owned: a monthly template subscription that's slow on phones and invisible to search. WATDA's old site had a structured-data bug that sent Google an empty address — for a business where "Korean restaurant near me" is the whole game.
And search itself has split in two. People now ask ChatGPT and Google's AI where to eat. A site that doesn't speak that language doesn't get recommended.
Home, menu, about, and find-us pages designed around the restaurant's real look — olive and sage from the actual storefront, their own photography, their real menu. No template.
Proper restaurant structured data (with the address Google was missing), per-page titles and descriptions, a sitemap, and an og-card — then measured with our GEO engine until the AI-visibility score moved: 50 → 66.
Every photo optimised — roughly 2MB each down to ~120KB. Zero layout shift (CLS 0.005) and zero main-thread blocking (TBT 0ms) on the live measurement.
Off the Squarespace subscription onto fast global hosting at $0/month, on their own domain, with their Google Workspace email untouched through the switch.
Scores measured on the live site, 17 July 2026: Lighthouse SEO 100, accessibility 96, best practices 96 (mobile). AI-visibility scored with PAAK's own GEO audit engine, same rubric before and after.
Hand-built, live in days, measured before it's called done. You talk to the builder, start to finish.
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