Common WordPress Speed Issues and How to Fix Them
The usual suspects: bloated themes, aggressive plugins, and images nobody resized.
If your Time to First Byte is slow, fix hosting and database before you touch hero images. A fast theme on weak hosting still loses.
Audit plugins like you mean it. Anything that runs on every page should earn its keep. Deactivate suspects one by one and measure, don’t guess.
Images are still the cheapest win. Serve modern formats where you can, size for the largest slot the image actually occupies, and lazy-load below the fold.
Third-party scripts—chat widgets, pixels, heatmaps—stack fast. Load them after interaction or on specific templates, not globally by default.
Caching is not cheating; it is honesty about what can be static. Pair page cache with object cache only when you understand what is being stored.
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