A vendor proposed $22,500 to rebuild the websites for Elements Restaurant and Riverwoods Conference Center, $10,000 of it for the two website redesigns alone. Before recommending a decision, we did two things: we measured the vendor's own website, and we built the two sites ourselves.
Everything below was produced in a single evening using AI, working only from what is already public: the two live websites, their menus and floor plans, and public records. Every number on these pages was measured rather than asserted, and the method is published alongside it.
The Measurement Record
What We Measured On INN8's Own Website
Before recommending anything we measured the vendor's own site the way a browser sees it. Page weight, Core Web Vitals, structured data, accessibility, crawl files and the public entity record. Every figure carries its source and the date it was read.
- Structured Data Blocks
- 0
- Images Missing Alt Text
- 3 of 3
- Sitemap Size
- 0 bytes
- Requests
- 48
Measurements only. No assessment of the firm, its work or its people.
Concept Site
Elements Restaurant
A five-page restaurant site built on the four elements the kitchen already runs on: a wood-fired oven, the Logan River through the glass, Cache Valley farmland, and the Bear River Range. Every dish and price is the real current menu.
- Pages
- 5
- Menu Sections
- 33
- Home Page Weight
- 807 KB
- Photographs, Real Of Total
- 9 of 12
Concept site. Nothing entered is transmitted.
Concept Site
Riverwoods Conference Center
Every room here is already named after a tree and nobody had ever drawn one. Eleven leaf marks become the wayfinding, the capacity chart and the identity at once. The enquiry form asks the 9 things a planner actually needs to answer, and filters the rooms live by guest count.
- Pages
- 6
- Leaf Marks Drawn
- 11
- Home Page Weight
- 412 KB
- Photographs, Real Of Total
- 24 of 24
Concept site. Nothing entered is transmitted.
Measured Side By SideSame Method, Same Day
| Measure | INN8 Industries | Elements Concept | Riverwoods Concept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Page Weight, Uncached | 13.32 MB | 807 KB | 412 KB |
| Requests | 48 | 12 | 10 |
| Structured Data Blocks | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Images Missing Alt Text | 3 of 3 | 0 of 12 | 0 of 24 |
| Largest Contentful Paint | 412 ms | 144 ms | 136 ms |
How these were measured. Home page in each case, uncached,
summing real response bodies with the browser cache disabled, median of three loads at
1440 by 900. Page weight was read from the response bodies rather than from
transferSize, which reports close to zero for anything already cached and
would have understated every figure here. INN8's page was read on
2026-08-25 and is the full page after scrolling; on arrival without scrolling it measures
8.36 MB.
What This Is, And What It Is NotRead This Part
- These are concept sites, not live sites. Nothing entered into any form is transmitted anywhere. There is no booking system behind them, no analytics, no cookies and no tracking of any kind.
- The content is real. 193 menu items with their real prices, 13 real spaces with their published capacities, real hours and real addresses, all taken from the properties' own current websites.
- Most of the photography is real. 33 of the 36 photographs used are the properties' own. The rest are AI-generated concept images and every one of them is labeled where it appears.
- The measurement record states measurements only. It carries no assessment of the vendor, its work or its people, it names no individual, and any figure shown to be inaccurate will be corrected.
- This is a demonstration of capability, not a finished product. A real build would start from the property's own photography, its brand decisions and its booking systems. The point is what one evening produced, and what that implies about what the $22,500 was buying.
436 existing photographs were reviewed and 110 were rejected, most of them because they showed identifiable guests at real events. No recognizable face appears anywhere in this deliverable.