— Case study · Websites & apps
Milliseconds, not seconds.
One of the world's oldest and most influential foreign policy think tanks, with offices spanning Washington D.C., Brussels, Beirut, Berlin, New Delhi, and beyond.
81%
Faster First Contentful Paint
99.5%
Reduction in page load time
70%
Improvement in Speed Index
— The brief
Carnegie Endowment needed a modern, high-performance web experience that could keep pace with their international reach and the expectations of a sophisticated, time-pressed audience — a critical gateway to world-class analysis.
Carnegie Endowment · Global foreign policy think tank
Researchers, diplomats, journalists, and policymakers across the globe.
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— The problem
The problem.
Carnegie's existing site was slow, technically constrained, and struggling to serve a global audience efficiently — with near four-second delays before content appeared and page load times exceeding 8 seconds for international visitors.
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— How we helped
How did we help?
Fusionary redesigned and rebuilt Carnegie's site from the ground up with a relentless focus on speed, global performance, and technical excellence.
Rebuilt site architecture
The site architecture was rebuilt for maximum load efficiency, removing the technical constraints holding back the previous experience.
Global delivery optimization
Delivery was optimized for both domestic and international audiences — European page load times dropped from over 8 seconds to just 32 milliseconds.
Core Web Vitals compliance
The new site achieves Google Core Web Vitals scores well within "good" thresholds, meeting and exceeding Google's performance standards.
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— The outcome
The outcome.
Carnegie's new site loads in milliseconds, not seconds — delivering a fast, seamless experience to visitors everywhere in the world.
First Contentful Paint
Visitors now see content in 0.7 seconds, down from 3.6s — an 81% improvement.
Largest Contentful Paint
Main page content loads in 1.1 seconds, down from 3.8s — comfortably inside Google's "good" benchmark of 2.5s.
Speed Index
Overall perceived load speed improved 70%, from 4.7s to 1.4s.
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— 04 · The stack
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