FINNY just moved to self-serve and hired a Growth Marketing Manager to run Google and LinkedIn ads and lift trial conversion. Most of those clicks are first visits, many on phones. On Google's phone test the finny.com homepage downloads 7.9 MB, 6.3 MB of it from five files on Amazon Web Services that are not cached efficiently, and the headline paragraph appears after 11 seconds (mobile score 43). Today's real visitors still pass Core Web Vitals, but load time is getting slower, and cold paid traffic gets the slowest version of the page.
First action
Identify the five AWS-hosted files and their sizes in the browser's network panel.
How to measure it
Mobile page weight
- Now
- –
- Target
- under 2 MB
- By
- 30 days
Steps
Find the heavy files
The five AWS-hosted assets and where they load.
Growth Marketing Manager 1 hour
Compress and defer
Poster image first, media after the headline.
Product engineer 2 days
Set caching
Long cache lifetimes on static assets.
Product engineer 1 hour
Trim scripts
Unused JavaScript and render-blocking requests.
Product engineer 2 days
Retest
PageSpeed mobile and desktop.
Growth Marketing Manager 1 hour
Build paid landing pages
Lean pages per audience with one action.
Growth Marketing Manager 1 week
Measure
Sign-up rate from paid before and after.
Growth Marketing Manager 1 month
Why it works
Find the five heavy AWS-hosted files (likely video or animation), compress them, serve a poster image first and load the media after the headline, set long cache lifetimes, remove the 386 KB of unused JavaScript and defer render-blocking requests. Then build lean landing pages for paid traffic with the same message and one "Join Now" action.
Every second on a cold mobile visit costs sign-ups, and fixing it before scaling spend makes every ad dollar the new role spends go further. A faster page also helps organic and AI-search visibility, which the same role owns.
Ready to use
ChecklistHomepage weight fixes
[ ] List the five AWS-hosted files and sizes [ ] Compress video/animation; poster image first [ ] Lazy-load media below the headline [ ] Cache-Control: long max-age on static assets [ ] Remove unused JavaScript [ ] Defer render-blocking requests [ ] Rerun PageSpeed mobile; target under 2 MB [ ] Separate lean landing pages for paid traffic
Risks and how to handle them
Losing the brand video
Keep it, but load it after the page is usable.
Real-visitor scores look fine today
Track paid mobile traffic separately; it is first-visit traffic.
Evidence
- PageSpeed testGoogle PageSpeed for the finny.com homepage (October 22, 2026): mobile performance 43/100 (desktop 70); on the phone test the main content, the paragraph "From hello to close, FINNY is the AI growth officer for financial advisors", appears after 11.0 s; the page downloads 7.9 MB in 59 requests, 6.3 MB of it from five files on Amazon Web Services with no efficient cache lifetime; 386 KB of unused JavaScript and 1.15 s of render-blocking requests. Real Chrome visitors still pass Core Web Vitals (homepage LCP about 2.1 s at the 75th percentile), but origin LCP is 25% slower than the previous period.Source
- HiringGrowth Marketing Manager (New York, posted July 21, 2026): to "build and own our SEO, GEO (generative engine optimization), and paid acquisition function from the ground up", reporting to the CEO, "right as FINNY's brand has been sharpened and the business model has pivoted to self-serve". Owns paid acquisition "across Google and LinkedIn", landing pages and "a steady CRO test roadmap" to "lift demo/trial conversion", and "clean, trusted attribution from click to paid client". A regulated-vertical background is "a strong plus".Source
- Your websitefinny.com (read through programmable.info; the site challenges automated readers): page title "The AI growth officer for financial advisors | FINNY" (a year ago: "Take the guess work out of prospecting"); links to Pricing, Compliance, Security and a blog post announcing Pay As You Grow ("No longer a vendor: meet your new growth partner"); "Join Now" goes to app.finny.com/welcome; SOC 2 is listed; press logos include TechCrunch, RIABiz, WealthManagement.com, Forbes and "Wealthies 2026 Winner". A Growth Community runs at community.finny.com behind sign-in.Source