WordPress speed audit

Find Out What’s Really Slowing Your Site Down

PageSpeed Insights hands you a score and a wall of vague suggestions. A speed audit hands you the exact culprits: which plugins, which images, which server settings are costing you seconds. You get a prioritized fix list sorted by impact, not a 60-page report nobody reads.

800+Sites audited
18+Years building WordPress
50+Checks per audit
48hTurnaround

What’s actually killing your speed

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Plugin overload

47 active plugins, each loading CSS and JS on every page. You don’t need 47. You need 15 that work well together.

🖼️

Unoptimized images

4MB hero images served as PNG, no WebP, no lazy loading, no responsive srcset. Images are usually the single biggest bottleneck.

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Wrong hosting

Shared hosting packed with 40 other sites and a 2-second server response. No caching plugin fixes a slow server.

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Database bloat

100,000 post revisions, 50,000 spam comments, orphaned plugin tables. Query time creeps up every year you ignore it.

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Render-blocking assets

20 CSS files and 15 JS files in the head. The browser can’t paint a single pixel until they all download and parse.

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Caching that fights itself

Three caching plugins fighting each other, missing browser cache headers, no CDN. Every request gets built from scratch.

What’s in the audit

A prioritized action plan, not a data dump. Every finding comes with the fix, the expected gain, and the effort to ship it.

  • Full waterfall analysis in Chrome DevTools and WebPageTest
  • Plugin performance audit with load time measured per plugin
  • Image optimization assessment with a real savings estimate
  • Server response analysis: TTFB, DNS, SSL, connection time
  • Database query profiling with slow queries identified
  • Caching review across page cache, browser cache, and CDN
  • Core Web Vitals breakdown with fix priorities
  • Prioritized plan: quick wins first, then medium, then long-term

What changes after

A PageSpeed score of 34Knowing exactly why, and how to hit 90+
Guessing which plugin is slowPer-plugin load time data
Random fixes from forumsA plan ordered by biggest impact
Generic adviceSpecific fixes for your exact stack

How I audit your site

1

Baseline measurement

I test from 5 global locations on real devices, mobile and desktop, throttled 3G and fast WiFi. Real conditions, not lab fantasies.

2

Deep dive

Waterfall analysis, plugin profiling, database queries, server response. I find every millisecond you’re wasting.

3

Prioritized roadmap

Every issue documented with impact, effort, and the exact fix, sorted so the biggest wins come first.

4

Walkthrough

We go through the report together so you or your dev can execute with zero guesswork.

Why a diagnosis beats a guess

I’ve watched people spend a weekend compressing images when their real problem was a 2-second TTFB on cheap shared hosting. The audit kills that guesswork. On a typical build I take sites from a 3.8s LCP down under 1s, but only after the data tells me which lever actually moves first.

If you’d rather I do the fixing too, I also handle performance optimization, Cloudflare cache setup, and full technical SEO.

Stop guessing why your site is slow

Get a prioritized speed audit in 48 hours that tells you exactly what to fix first, and what it’ll buy you.

Get my speed audit →