Court of Audit — Institutional site

Context

Benin's Court of Audit is the supreme institution responsible for auditing public accounts. Its mission: making its reports transparent and accessible to citizens, media, and international partners. The challenge: making 30+ public audit reports readable, navigable and downloadable.

The technical challenge

• Performance and SEO: Lighthouse ≥ 95 so reports load quickly even on local 3G connections.
• Static-first architecture for resilience (site stays available during traffic spikes after a sensitive report is published).
• In-report search: automatic table of contents, anchor links, client-side full-text search (no external tracker).
• Bilingual French + English (reports go to international donors).

What we shipped

• Next.js 14 with static generation (SSG) for institutional pages, ISR for reports updated periodically.
• Headless CMS so the comms team can publish without touching code.
• Custom report components: interactive table of contents, chapter navigation, PDF download.
• Vercel hosting with global CDN for visitors outside Benin (international press, donors).

Results

• 80+ pages published (institution, missions, reports, news).
• 30+ audit reports online with enriched navigation.
• 100% Google indexation on public pages.
• Lighthouse 98 average on mobile.

What we learned

For an institution publishing sensitive and durable content, static rendering isn't a technical detail: it's an insurance policy. A report published in 2023 stays readable exactly the same way in 2030, even if the stack evolves, because it's served as plain HTML from the CDN.