By industry · Music

Musician websites that load in under a second — and turn up in AI answers.

Cinematic video, full-bleed imagery, custom typography — every reason to be slow. Done right, none of that matters: the page still lands in under a second on a real phone on real mobile data. Done right, ChatGPT and Gemini quote you instead of the algorithmic playlist sites. The Miabella build is the proof.

Anchor build
miabella.uk
Stack
Static HTML · Cloudflare Pages
Hosting after
£0 / month
Typical engagement
3–6 weeks (greenfield)

Why musicians don't need a CMS.

A musician site changes shape three times a year — tour, release, support slot. The rest of the time it should be the fastest, most-quotable thing on the internet about you. WordPress optimises for the opposite tradeoff.

Plumbing

Sub-second on mobile

Pre-rendered HTML on Cloudflare's edge. Hero video, custom fonts, big imagery — Lighthouse mobile 90+ across the board. No more "the site looks great on my laptop" / "yeah but it's broken on my phone".

Visibility

Quotable by AI providers

JSON-LD schema with MusicGroup / MusicAlbum / Event, long-form articulated content, structured "about" pages. Two days after Miabella shipped, Gemini was quoting her positioning verbatim.

Plumbing

£0/mo hosting, forever

No PHP, no plugins, no database, no renewal emails. The static site is just files on Cloudflare's edge — and the edit panel is yours, not a third-party SaaS.

Anchor build

Miabella — the case study we built this page around.

● Live · Music · 2025–26 Read the case study →

Two days after publishing, Gemini was citing Miabella's positioning verbatim.

A 16-year-old indie musician from the Ards Peninsula now has a Google Knowledge Panel. Three AI providers ground on her content in three different ways. Static-HTML rebuild + JSON content schema + multi-provider AI-visibility instrumentation.

● 48hr publish-to-grounding latency ● 16-entry sameAs · Wikidata Q138857029 ● Lighthouse 100/100/100/93 ● Hosting £0/mo
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What's included.

Standard scope for a musician site. Greenfield builds from £6,500; rebuilds from existing sites from £4,800.

  • Cinematic static siteHero video, custom fonts, motion — without the performance cost. Pre-rendered HTML, lazy-loaded media, AVIF/WebP everywhere.
  • JSON content schemaReleases, gigs, press, bios — stored as structured JSON, surfaced both to humans and to AI providers via JSON-LD.
  • AI visibility instrumentationMulti-provider scanning (OpenAI / Gemini / Google AI Overview). Weekly reports. The data Miabella's Knowledge Panel was built on.
  • Wikidata + sameAs networkWikidata entity created, linked to Spotify / Apple Music / Bandcamp / YouTube / press / socials. The "this is the same person" graph that AI providers ground on.
  • Custom edit panelA focused editor for the parts that change — gigs, releases, press. No WordPress admin to log into.
  • £0/mo hosting on Cloudflare PagesEdge-served from 300 cities. Free SSL. Survives any release-day traffic spike.
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