About

About Website War Room

Website War Room is led by Sam O'Barr and Dustin Porchia, two senior web operators focused on helping businesses diagnose, improve, rebuild, and maintain websites that need to perform better.

Why We Built Website War Room

Most Businesses Do Not Need Another Vendor Who Only Makes Pages Look Nicer.

They need someone who can look at the whole system: offer, audience, user journey, CMS, ecommerce flow, SEO structure, analytics, performance, accessibility, MarTech, and conversion. Website War Room exists for teams that need senior website decisions before they spend more money on disconnected fixes.

Meet The Operators

Meet The Operators Behind Website War Room

Website War Room is intentionally small, senior, and hands-on. When you work with us, you are working with people who understand websites as business systems, not just design projects.

Sam O'Barr, Website War Room co-founder
Co-Founder

Sam O'Barr

Co-Founder & Senior Website Operator

Sam works across website strategy, technical planning, SEO, analytics, UX, performance, MarTech, ecommerce, and conversion-focused web systems. His focus is helping businesses understand what is actually holding their website back and what should be fixed first.

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Dustin Porchia, Website War Room co-founder
Co-Founder

Dustin Porchia

Co-Founder & Senior Website Operator

Dustin works across website strategy, technical planning, implementation quality, performance, maintainability, ecommerce, analytics, and conversion-focused web systems. His focus is helping businesses turn website problems into practical, buildable solutions.

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Why Small And Senior Matters

Fewer Layers. Less Translation Loss. Clearer Decisions.

A smaller senior team means fewer layers, less translation loss, and more direct thinking applied to the work. The goal is not to look busy. The goal is to diagnose the right problem and make the next move clear.

How We Work Together

Two Senior Operators. One Website System.

The value of Website War Room is that strategy and execution stay connected. We look at the whole website system: offer, audience, page structure, UX, SEO, analytics, performance, accessibility, CMS reality, ecommerce or lead flow, MarTech, and long-term maintainability.

System

Diagnose The Whole Website

We look across strategy, content, structure, UX, SEO, performance, analytics, tools, and the path to conversion.

Plan

Prioritize By Business Impact

Not every issue deserves the same urgency. We separate noise from the constraints that block growth, measurement, and maintainability.

Execute

Keep Strategy Connected To The Build

The work connects what should happen, why it matters, how it gets implemented, and how the result can be measured.

Difference

What Makes Us Different

Principle

We Diagnose Before We Prescribe

We do not recommend a rebuild, audit, tool, or page change until the real constraint is clearer.

Principle

We Care About The Whole Website System

Offer, audience, pages, UX, CMS, ecommerce or lead flow, analytics, speed, and maintainability all affect outcomes.

Principle

We Do Not Treat SEO As A Launch Checklist

Search structure, URL decisions, headings, content depth, and internal links belong in the strategy, not at the end.

Principle

We Do Not Guess When Analytics Should Tell The Story

Tracking should help reveal where qualified intent is coming from, where it drops off, and what to fix next.

Principle

We Build For Maintainability, Not Just The Demo

A website should be easier to manage after launch, not fragile, bloated, or dependent on guesswork.

Principle

We Prioritize What Actually Blocks Growth

The work focuses on constraints that affect revenue, speed, SEO, conversion, analytics, and operating quality.

Fit

Who We Are A Fit For

Fit

Ecommerce brands

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Shopify operators

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Founder-led businesses

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Service businesses

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Lean marketing teams

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Businesses planning a rebuild

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Teams with broken analytics

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Fit

Sites that look good but do not convert

A good fit when the website needs sharper strategy, cleaner measurement, better performance, and more reliable conversion paths.

Not A Fit

Who We Are Not A Fit For

This is honest by design. A clear no saves everyone time.

No

Cheapest Possible Website

You only want the cheapest possible website.

No

Surface-Level Visual Changes

You only want surface-level visual changes.

No

No Interest In The System

You are not willing to look at strategy, analytics, search, performance, or user behavior.

No

Tools Before Foundation

You want to add more tools before fixing the foundation.

No

Large Agency Team Required

You need a large traditional agency team instead of senior operator support.

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Bring Your Website Into The War Room

Tell us what is broken, what you are building, and where you want to go. If it looks like a fit, we will map the next move.

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