Case study / Liqueur brand, redesign, search, analytics

A premium Austrian liqueur house: the first screen now shows the bottles, every page is easy to find in search, and analytics wait for consent.

Web designSEOAnalytics
The new first screen: four liqueur bottles in a row2026
Year
2026
Scope
Redesign, search optimisation, analytics
Niche
Premium liqueur, Austria
Format
Existing brand site with a rebuilt first screen
Languages
German, English and 22 more
01 / The task

The goal: keep the cream-and-gold look of the brand, show the product in the first few seconds, make every page easy to find and count visits only with consent.

02 / What we made
  1. Bottles firstThe menu is always visible and all four bottles are above the fold, with one main button and a second one for trade enquiries.
  2. Lighter and fasterImages became AVIF and WebP, fonts come from the site itself and the style sheet was cut down to what the pages use.
  3. Built to be foundSeparate German and English pages with their own titles, hreflang, structured data from real facts, a sitemap and a 404 page.
  4. Analytics after consentGoogle Analytics 4 runs through consent mode. Nothing is sent until the visitor presses Accept.
Measured, before and after
74100Phone performance score
Lighthouse, mobile
5.4 s1.5 sMain image appears
Largest Contentful Paint, mobile
1.8 MB0.57 MBPage weight
Home page, mobile
92100Accessibility score
Contrast, tap targets, focus, skip link

Lighthouse 13, median of three runs, on a local build with no compression or CDN, the same server for both versions. Real-world numbers depend on hosting.

03 / The pages

THE PAGES

Tap any page to see it large.

Santellini: Before
01 Before

The old first screen: a headline over watercolour fruit, the menu hidden and no product in sight.

Santellini: After
02 After

The new first screen: menu always visible, four bottles in a row, two buttons and three facts.

Santellini: Banner
03 Banner

The cookies and analysis banner: Accept, Decline and Settings look equally important.

Santellini mobile 1Santellini mobile 2Santellini mobile 3
04 Mobile

On a phone: before, after and a product card, with no sideways scrolling from 360 px wide.

04 / Images

The first screen after the rebuild: the thing you sell, before anything to read.

The new first screen with four liqueur bottles
First screen, afterRedesign
A product card on a phone
Product card on a phoneRedesign
05 / What stayed

WHAT
STAYED

The lookCream and gold, Playfair Display and DM Sans, the watercolour fruit. Recognisable on day one.
The wordsThe copy is the brand's own. Only meta descriptions, picture descriptions and the consent banner changed, not the story.
The featuresThe language switch, product details, contact form and legal pages all work as before.

Palette

Colours sampled from the live site

Typefaces

Aa
Display
Playfair Display
Aa
Text and labels
DM Sans

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LIKE THIS?

Tell us what you sell. We will design the first screen.