Delivered Results for WordPress Speed Optimization Service

WordPress Speed is critical for your site - so we go beyond other providers

These are real-world results from real business websites using a variety of plugins, themes and hosting providers.

A lot of speed results you see around the web are where sites have had nearly all images and other elements on the page removed in order to achieve their fast load times. We don’t do any of that nonsense.

Fast load times are worthless if the website doesn’t convert visitors or market your business effectively. Our approach is a commercial, marketing first approach and balances the need for speed with the other business critical functions your website performs.

Generally speaking, speed and load times will vary depending on the time of day (time of day impacts server load) and the location of visitor or test tool but that said, these results are fairly typical when you use a high quality host in combination with our process.

Note that many of these results were tested using Pingdom’s speed test tool. Since Google released it’s Core Web Vitals metrics in mid 2020 we now focus on a number of metrics and not just simply “load time”.

In an ideal world we want our speed timings looking something like below which reflect a “good” score in Google’s Core Web Vitals:

-TTFB 0.1-0.2 seconds (this is where is should be in the country where the site is hosted, 0.2-0.5 internationally)
-FCP at or under 1 second
-LCP under 4 seconds but ideally as close to the LCP as possible, generally within 1 second of the LCP is fast
-load time 1.5-2.5
-fully loaded time can vary a lot depending on the third party code being used. Generally we’d expect to see it 1-2 second higher than the load time but this largely depends on the type of site, eg with a Woocommerce site this could easily be 3-5 seconds higher depending on the marketing code in use

Just above 1 second for this Woocommerce site that started with load times at over 10 seconds. This site had some
problematic plugins slowing down the site as well as some large images.

Before 10+ second load times

Page Size

3.6 MB

Number of Requests

189

Load Time

10.68s

LCP Timing

6.9s

Tested from

Melbourne

After ~ 1 second load times

Page Size

2.00 MB

Number of Requests

156

Load Time

1.1s

LCP Timing

0.7s

Tested from

Melbourne

Another just above 1 second for the site that started with load times at over 8.6 seconds. 

This site had server and cache issues that slowed down the site.

Before 8+ second load times

Page Size

4.8 MB

Number of Requests

200

Load Time

8.6s

LCP Timing

3.8s

Tested from

San Jose

After ~ 1 second load times

Page Size

1.2 MB

Number of Requests

63

Load Time

1.2s

LCP Timing

0.67s

Tested from

San Jose

Now Loading is under 1 second for the site that started with load times at over 5.2 seconds.

This site had server and DB query issues that slowed down the site.

Before 5+ second load times

Page Size

3 MB

Number of Requests

160

Load Time

5.2s

LCP Timing

4.0s

Tested from

San Jose

After ~ 0.2 second load times

Page Size

868 KB

Number of Requests

21

Load Time

0.2s

LCP Timing

0.3s

Tested from

San Jose

Just above 2 second for this Woocommerce site that started with load times at over 12+ seconds. This site had some
problematic plugins slowing down the site as well as some large images.

Before 12+ seconds load times

Page Size

6.2 MB

Number of Requests

302

Load Time

12.26s

LCP Timing

6.5s

Tested from

San Jose

After ~ 2 seconds load times

Page Size

1.6 MB

Number of Requests

92

Load Time

2.1s

LCP Timing

0.7s

Tested from

San Jose

WORDPRESS SPEED OPTIMIZATION

Page Size

1.9 MB

Number of Requests

70

Load Time

1.0 s

LCP Timing

0.7 s

Tested from

UK-London

WORDPRESS SPEED OPTIMIZATION

Page Size

2.3 MB

Number of Requests

59

Load Time

1.0s

LCP Timing

1.7s

Tested from

San Jose

WORDPRESS SPEED OPTIMIZATION

Page Size

588 KB

Number of Requests

51

Load Time

0.972s

LCP Timing

0.4s

Tested from

UK- London

WORDPRESS SPEED OPTIMIZATION

Page Size

198.2 KB

Number of Requests

10

Load Time

356 ms

LCP Timing

0.4 s

Tested from

Washington D.C

WORDPRESS SPEED OPTIMIZATION

Page Size

1.9 MB

Number of Requests

84

Load Time

1.4s

LCP Timing

1.197s

Tested from

San Jose