Rebuilding a Tamil fact-checking site to load fast and be found

The problem

The old site was a client-rendered app. It was slow on first load on mobile data and could not reach a top performance score. For a fact-checker, being found quickly on search is the whole job.

What we did

• Moved the public site to server-rendered Next.js, so the first screen arrives as ready HTML.
• Every fact-check carries ClaimReview markup, so search engines can show the verdict directly.
• Tamil fonts chosen and loaded carefully, so Tamil headlines render cleanly and fast.
• A separate image resizer and a share service that makes proper link previews on WhatsApp.

How a fact-check gets published

What changed

A faster Tamil fact-checking site with verdicts marked up for search, and one codebase for web, admin and mobile.

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