One person, in Stockton.
I build websites in Stockton, and I build them the way a site should be built: static files, no database to break, nothing between your visitor and the page.
Most of what makes a site slow is stuff nobody asked for — trackers, page builders, framework weight, four fonts loading before a word appears. Take that out and a phone renders your page in half a second. That is most of the job.
The rest is deciding what to say. I write the copy too, because a fast page that buries the point is still a slow page.
I measure every site I build and hand the numbers to the client with it. That is the reason there is no page of adjectives about quality here — a load time is either under a second or it is not.
Stockton, California. The port here runs 75 miles inland — everything that moves through it was routed here on purpose. Same idea.