WordPress Speed Audit

Stop guessing. A WordPress speed audit names the culprit.

I measure your hosting, plugins, images, scripts and database separately, then hand you one fix list ranked by impact. Run it yourself, give it to your developer, or have me quote the work.

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Most slow WordPress sites have one dominant bottleneck, not ten small ones. Working out which one is the entire job.

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What you are buying

₹15,000$199 · fixed price, GST included

3 daysBrief to ranked fix list

1 callWalkthrough with you or your developer

NoneRetainers, upsells, or lock-in

Work delivered for, or alongside, teams at:

IBM
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HubSpot
Canva
monday.com
IATA
FreshBooks
Acer
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Airtel
BYJU’S
AppSumo
StellarWP
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What it costs

One audit. One ranked list. No upsell buried inside.

The audit is the whole product: what is slow, why, and in what order to fix it. Implementation is optional afterwards, and quoted only from what the audit actually found.

WordPress speed audit

₹15,000 $199Fixed price · 3 working days

Uncached and cached TTFB, measured from your visitors’ region
Per-plugin load profiling, so the expensive ones get named
Image weight, format, and lazy-loading review
Render-blocking CSS, JavaScript, and font audit
Database bloat, autoloaded options, and slow queries
Core Web Vitals mapped to causes: LCP, INP, CLS
Fix list ranked by impact, with the effort beside each item
A walkthrough call with you or your developer

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Want the fixes done as well? They are quoted from the list, or you can take the ₹25,000 ($299) performance optimization package.

All prices include GST.

How this runs

You will see the numbers before you see an opinion.

Measure

I test on throttled mobile and on desktop, pull field data where Chrome has enough of it, and record uncached TTFB so a cache hit cannot hide a slow origin.

You get: your real numbers, not a score.

Profile

Plugins get timed one at a time. Images get weighed. Queries get logged. Every suspect is isolated, so nothing gets blamed on a hunch.

You get: the culprits named and measured.

Rank

Each fix gets an impact estimate and an effort estimate, then the list is sorted so the biggest wins come first and the filler never gets written down.

You get: a fix list in execution order.

Walk through

We go through the list on a call, your developer included if you have one, so every item is understood before anyone touches the site.

You get: no guesswork about what to do first.

A note from me

How I audit for speed

I check hosting first, always. I have watched people spend a weekend compressing images when the real problem was a two-second server response that no plugin can fix.

Every finding in the report is one I reproduced myself. If I cannot reproduce it, it does not go on the list, which is why the list is short and why every line on it is worth your time.

And the report is written for whoever has to execute it. Exact plugin, exact setting, exact order. Never “consider optimizing your assets.”

— Gaurav

Before you write in

This isn’t for every site.

Worth starting

Your WordPress site is slow and you cannot tell whether to blame the hosting, the plugins, or the theme.
You are about to switch hosts or buy optimization tools, and you want data before you spend.
You have a developer who can execute a clear, ranked list.
Your WooCommerce checkout feels sluggish and cart abandonment is starting to worry you.
You have already tried the common advice and the site still fails Core Web Vitals.

Look elsewhere

Your whole speed budget is under ₹15,000 ($199). Run PageSpeed Insights, fix your images first, and come back if it is still slow.
You already know the cause and just want it fixed. Go straight to the performance optimization package.
Your site is not on WordPress. The method transfers, but this audit’s plugin and database checks do not.
You expect implementation at this price. Fixes are scoped separately, once you have seen the list.
You expect the audit itself to make the site faster. It is the diagnosis, not the treatment.

If you want to:

Know the real cause before spending anything on fixes
Fix in the right order biggest wins first, filler never
Stop wasting money on plugins that cannot help your case

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Common questions

Not answered here? Ask directly and you will hear back within 24 hours.

₹15,000, or $199, fixed and GST included. That covers hosting and TTFB tests, per-plugin profiling, image and script review, database checks, and a fix list ranked by impact, delivered in 3 working days with a walkthrough call.

PageSpeed hands you a score and generic suggestions. The audit tells you which plugin costs you the most milliseconds, whether your hosting is the real problem, and what order to fix things in. Tools list symptoms. The audit finds causes.

No, and I would rather say so plainly. It is the diagnosis, not the treatment. What it buys you is knowing which three things are worth doing and which twenty are not, which is usually worth more than the fee in wasted plugin licences alone.

Yes, and it often is. I test uncached TTFB and compare it against what good hosting delivers at your traffic level. If the origin is slow, I say so instead of selling you settings that cannot help.

Usually because the fixes went in without a diagnosis, so the real bottleneck never got touched. The audit shows what was actually done, what worked, and what is still costing you seconds. It is also how you check past work honestly.

Optionally, yes. The audit stands alone and plenty of clients hand the list to their own developer. If you would rather I did it, each fix is quoted from the list so you approve exactly what gets done, or you take the ₹25,000 ($299) optimization package.

Free, if you would rather do it yourself

Everything I check, written up in the open

The audit is the fast path. The method behind it is published, so you can work through it without hiring anyone.

WordPress Speed and PerformanceThe full course: caching, CDN, images, fonts, database, server.Pass the Core Web Vitals testWhat LCP, INP and CLS actually measure, and how to move each one.FlyingPress vs WP RocketTwo caching plugins compared on the same site, same conditions.GT PerformanceThe caching engine I wrote and run on my own sites.

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About me

So, who’s watching your site?

Everything I would put on your site is running on mine first.

Maintenance and speed clients get the same stack I trust with my own traffic: GT Performance, Cloudflare, Redis, Hetzner.

I was a teacher before I was a developer. I taught mathematics to competitive-exam students, which is why I explain hard things plainly instead of hiding behind jargon.

What I am actually good at is the join: technical SEO, fast front-ends, and content treated as one system instead of three vendors blaming each other.

Author of GT Performance, my own caching engine
Hardening proven on my own production sites
Plugins on 10,000+ active installs
WordPress Core contributor
850+ clients since 2008
Building for the web since 2008

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Send me the site that feels slow.

Send the URL and say who hosts it. I will confirm the audit fits, flag anything I can already see from the outside, and give you a start date. Wherever the site is in the world, the tests are the same.

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