Brand + web presence

TESS.GLOBAL

Merritt Island, FL

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Quality

95Performance100Accessibility95Best practices100SEO
0–49 50–89 90–100

Case study

The challenge

A new tactical security firm — event protection, healthcare, hospitality, corporate — needed a web presence that communicated competence and discretion before a single line of copy was read. Security buyers scan for signal: typography that looks organised, navigation that doesn't misbehave, pages that load on the first try from a phone in a hotel lobby. Anything less and they bounce.

The approach

A static Astro build with hand-authored SCSS — semantic class names, a shield-logo brand system, self-hosted Barlow Condensed and DM Sans (no Google Fonts round-trip). Pages ship zero client-side JavaScript by default. The information architecture cross-links services × industries so a hospital looking for medical standby reaches the same page as a venue looking for event security. Cloudflare proxies the zone for CDN and SSL termination, and the site runs as a dedicated service on private infrastructure we own and operate — one operator, one uptime commitment.

Infrastructure

1 dedicated service on private infrastructure.

  • Web

    Astro static site

The evidence

Live screenshots, not mockups.

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Homepage of tess.global with dark navigation, shield logo, and hero headline introducing the security services
Homepage hero — the shield logo and headline establish trust before a single service is listed.
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Full-length homepage of tess.global showing sections from hero through service catalogue to footer
Full-length homepage with the cross-linked service × industry IA.
Mobile viewport of tess.global at 390px
Mobile layout — hamburger nav collapsed, hero headline resized for readable width on a phone.
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Services page of tess.global listing event security, healthcare, hospitality, education, and corporate verticals
Services catalogue — each vertical links to its own landing page with industry-specific context.

Stack proof

Every claim is verifiable.

  • AstroVerified

    Static site generator producing zero-JS pages. Confirmed in the running container's package.json (node 22+, `astro build` in scripts). Page HTML references hashed /_astro/*.css bundles.

  • Custom SCSS design system

    Hand-authored CSS architecture using semantic class names (site-header, header-inner, nav-link) over utility-first classes. Keeps the shield-logo brand identity coherent across every page.

  • Barlow Condensed + DM Sans

    Display + body typefaces, self-hosted as WOFF2 under /fonts/, preloaded in <head>. No Google Fonts round trip, no third-party privacy leak.

  • MoonFactory-hosted

    Deployed on private infrastructure we own and operate — one dedicated service, one uptime commitment.

  • Cloudflare

    CDN and SSL termination. Proxied zone (orange cloud) — confirmed via the cf-ray response header on every request.

  • Astro
  • Custom SCSS
  • Cloudflare
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