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Performance-first web dev + technical SEO

Social Animal is a performance-first web development and technical SEO agency building for teams that care about speed, scale, and search.

  • Min project size
    $5,000+
  • Hourly rate
    $150 - $199 / hr
  • Employees
    2 - 9
  • Locations
    London, England
  • Year founded
    Founded 2012

2 Locations

  • London , England
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    Our Story

    We're a senior-only engineering team — no juniors, no outsourcing. Four specialists lead the practice and write our blog: Melody Sellers (performance, Next.js), Aaron Mitchell (headless CMS, Sanity/Contentful), Aryan Shah (platform migrations, Payload), and Tanvi Iyer (design engineering, accessibility). Clients work directly with the engineers shipping their code. No account managers. No handoffs. Fourteen years in, still small on purpose — because it's the only way to hold quality.

    Tools and Technology

    Slack
    Google Meet
    Google Drive
    Microsoft Teams
    Vercel
    Netlify

    Commonly Asked Questions

    We're focused on three kinds of work in 2026: headless CMS builds and migrations on Next.js or Astro (WordPress, Sitecore, AEM, Drupal into Sanity, Contentful, or Payload), performance-first marketing sites where Core Web Vitals and organic traffic matter more than animations, and AI integration work — ChatGPT, Claude, and OpenAI features wired into production apps with proper evaluation harnesses and cost controls. We typically decline pure WordPress themes, Wix/Squarespace work, and anything that doesn't have a measurable performance or SEO goal attached. Budgets usually land between £15K and £200K. If you're unsure whether your project fits, book a call — we'll tell you honestly within 20 minutes.

    Most engagements start with a paid discovery week (£2.5K–£5K) to map the technical scope, content model, and migration risks. That output becomes either a fixed-price scoped build or a retained monthly engagement — depending on whether the project is a one-time cutover or ongoing platform work. Typical timelines: marketing site rebuilds run 4–8 weeks, headless CMS migrations 6–12 weeks, enterprise platform replatforms 3–6 months. We staff small and senior — usually 2–3 engineers per project, with zero outsourcing. Weekly demos on Loom, a shared Slack channel, and a live Linear board. You see every commit, every deploy, every bug.

    SEO preservation is baked into every migration — it's the single biggest risk in replatforming and where most agencies quietly lose 30–50% of organic traffic for their clients. Our standard protocol: full URL inventory and 301 redirect map before any code ships, pre-migration benchmark of Core Web Vitals and indexation status, schema markup carried over and validated, hreflang preserved for multilingual sites, and a 30-day post-launch monitoring period where we watch Search Console daily and fix regressions within 24 hours. We've moved sites with 90K+ indexed URLs across platforms without dropping a single ranking position. Not because we're lucky — because we treat SEO as a migration requirement, not an afterthought.

    We run every engagement on three channels: a shared Slack or Teams channel (you pick — we're on both), a live Linear project board you can open any time to see every ticket, status, and assignee, and a weekly Loom demo that walks you through what shipped and what's next. No status PDFs, no "meeting about the meeting," no ghost weeks. Day-to-day response time on Slack is under two hours during London business hours. For enterprise clients across US and APAC time zones we set explicit overlap windows so standups and demos happen live, not async. Every commit, every deploy, and every bug ticket is visible in real time — you see the work as it happens, not a sanitised summary at the end of the sprint. At the end of each project we hand over a written closeout: what was built, what was decided and why, what's documented, what's in the backlog, and the exact steps to maintain or extend the platform. If you bring in another agency or an in-house team later, they have everything they need to continue without us. Monthly retainers include a written scorecard: Core Web Vitals, uptime, indexation status, conversion metrics (where we have access), and ticket burn-down. You see what you're paying for. Quiet months get flagged by us before you have to ask.

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    22 Notting Hill Gate London, England W11 3HL

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