Matt Hicks

You may already be aware that page load speed is extremely important for user experience, especially on mobile. However, did you know that it also affects SEO? As it is a competitive search engine, Google wants its users to have the best possible experience; for this reason, Google punishes websites with slow loading times. To …

In 2005, Google launched GAP, or in other words Google Advertising Professionals. Over the years the certification has changed and evolved into what it is today, Google Partners. The qualification serves the same purpose as it did 13 years ago: to certify individuals and digital marketing agencies who had successfully completed Google AdWords training, such …

We want to say a great big Lightflows “Welcome!” to our new starter, Georgia Grundy. To get to know her, we gave her a few questions and here’s what she had to say What’s your role at Lightflows? Internal Content & Digital Marketing Executive. I’ll be working my magic on the blog and co-managing Lightflows’ …

Instagram – the photo sharing app has just announced it has half a billion active users with more than 300 million people using it at least once a day. The service, which was bought by Facebook for $1BN dollars in 2012 has grown quickly, overtaking Twitter in an amazingly short time. With this huge community, …

Google Search Results Changes As of tomorrow (21st April) Google will be making changes which affect the ranking of sites in mobile search results. The update is expanding the use of their mobile-friendliness signal and will have a significant effect on mobile search results.

Apple Watch This week sees pre-orders open for the hotly anticipated Apple Watch. We’re eagerly awaiting ours as we’ve been secretly getting ready with some app development for the new device. That’s right, Lightflows are now officially developing for Apple Watch and Android Gear. Up until now this has taken place on the Apple Watch …

Spring is here – at last – and it’s hard to believe that we’re more than a quarter of the way through the year already. Here at Lightflows, we’ve been heads down, busy in some really exciting projects. So let’s take a quick breather and update you on what’s been going on.

The Christmas holidays are nearly upon us but there’s still plenty to do here at Lightflows HQ. Along with raft of pre-Christmas projects and promotion for our clients, we are also putting the finishing touches to our new, mobile optimised, responsive website too. Whilst our current site has served us well for the past five …

We want to say a great big Lightflows “Welcome!” to our new starters, Samantha Shirrmacher and Nik Bailey. Sam brings considerable commercial experience to our production team. With previous roles at Orange and Scoot, this experience is already kicking in to effect. Nik has been running his own studio and  joins our design team. In …

We are incredibly honoured and proud to working on a new Drupal website and platform for The Pirbright Institute. The Pirbright Institute, formerly known as the Institute for Animal Health, is a world leading centre of excellence in research and surveillance of virus diseases of farm animals and viruses that spread from animals to humans. …