Audit your plugins first Every active plugin adds some amount of processing and, often, frontend assets (CSS and JavaScript) that load whether a page needs them or not. Start by listing every active plugin and asking honestly whether it’s still needed — overlapping plugins (two SEO plugins, two caching plugins) are a common, easily fixed […]

Why Core Web Vitals exist Traditional performance metrics like total load time don’t capture what a visitor actually experiences — a page can ‘finish loading’ technically while still feeling slow or unstable to use. Core Web Vitals were designed to measure the parts of the experience that visitors actually notice. LCP — Largest Contentful Paint […]

Start with a real measurement Before changing anything, measure your current loading speed with a tool like PageSpeed Insights or Lighthouse, on both mobile and desktop. Mobile is usually the more constrained, more revealing test — most visitors on a slow connection or older device will notice problems a fast desktop test won’t show. Images […]