Speed & Performance
PageSpeed Insights (mobile), tested 2025-04 on the live demo
100 Performance93 Accessibility100 Best Practices100 SEO
LCP: 0.8sTBT: 0msCLS: 0
About Foundation
This free Carrd template delivers a clean, focused landing page designed to convert visitors into customers, perfect for showcasing your core offer without distractions or complexity. Foundation gives solo founders, freelancers, and small businesses a bulletproof framework to communicate value clearly. It balances high-impact typography with lightweight section layouts that load instantly on mobile connections. By eliminating unnecessary decorative scripts, Foundation achieved a perfect 100 PageSpeed score, ensuring your marketing campaigns capture every visitor without bounce penalties.
What's Included
- Hero section with bold headline and primary CTA button
- "Why choose Carrd?" value proposition with 3 key benefit cards
- "How to start your website today" 3-step onboarding walkthrough
- Comprehensive feature list with clean badge styling
- Closing high-contrast call-to-action conversion band
- Footer with navigation links and copyright disclaimer
Key Feature Notes
- Quick launch process: Customize text and images to launch in under 10 minutes
- Mobile-responsive layout: Hand-tuned typography and spacing across all viewports
- Clean, modern aesthetic: Versatile style suitable for freelancers, small businesses, and agencies
- Lightweight design: Optimized for near-instant load speeds and 100 PageSpeed scores
- Strategic call-to-action placement: Guides visitors smoothly toward conversions
Template Details
- Carrd plan needed
- Pro Lite ($9/year)
- Sections
- 6
- Forms
- None
- Embeds
- None
- Mobile
- Responsive
- PageSpeed (mobile)
- 100 (tested 2025-04)
- Updated
- 2026-09-24
Use on unlimited personal and client sites. Resale of the template file is not allowed. Terms
Who It's For
- Freelancers showcasing their primary offer or portfolio
- Small business owners promoting local or digital services
- Makers and creators launching a product or newsletter
- Agencies seeking a fast, dependable baseline for client landing pages
Carrd Plan Needed
Foundation runs on Carrd Pro Lite ($9/year) because it relies on native text, container, and button elements. If you choose to publish Foundation on your own custom domain or attach an email signup form, Carrd Pro Standard ($19/year) is required.
How to Get and Use Foundation
- Click Download Free Template to go to Carrd's secure checkout.
- Sign in to Carrd, or create a free account if you don't have one yet.
- After checkout, Foundation is automatically added to your Carrd dashboard templates.
- From your Carrd dashboard, choose New Site, then select Foundation from your templates.
- If you are not on Pro Lite yet, upgrade or start the 7-day free trial.
- Swap in your text, images, and links, then click Publish.
What is Carrd?
Carrd is a simple, free, fully responsive one-page website builder for pretty much anything. It offers a free tier for basic sites, Pro Lite from $9/year for custom templates, and Pro Standard ($19/year) to add custom domains, forms, widgets, and embeds. Learn more in our guide on why use Carrd, or get started with Carrd.
Foundation FAQ
You need at least Carrd Pro Lite ($9/year) to use custom Carrd templates. To publish to your own custom domain name, you will need Carrd Pro Standard ($19/year).
Yes. Carrd allows you to add native contact forms or newsletter boxes anywhere on the page. Adding a native form element requires Carrd Pro Standard.
No coding is required. Carrd features an intuitive visual drag-and-drop editor where you can edit text, swap images, adjust colors, and reorder sections with ease.
Yes. You are free to use Foundation on unlimited personal and commercial client websites. Reselling or redistributing the template file itself is prohibited.
