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
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Page Size 3.6 MB |
Number of Requests 189 |
Load Time 10.68s |
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LCP Timing 6.9s |
Tested from Melbourne |
After ~ 1 second load times
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Page Size 2.00 MB |
Number of Requests 156 |
Load Time 1.1s |
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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
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Page Size 4.8 MB |
Number of Requests 200 |
Load Time 8.6s |
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LCP Timing 3.8s |
Tested from San Jose |
After ~ 1 second load times
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Page Size 1.2 MB |
Number of Requests 63 |
Load Time 1.2s |
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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
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Page Size 3 MB |
Number of Requests 160 |
Load Time 5.2s |
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LCP Timing 4.0s |
Tested from San Jose |
After ~ 0.2 second load times
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Page Size 868 KB |
Number of Requests 21 |
Load Time 0.2s |
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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
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Page Size 6.2 MB |
Number of Requests 302 |
Load Time 12.26s |
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LCP Timing 6.5s |
Tested from San Jose |
After ~ 2 seconds load times
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Page Size 1.6 MB |
Number of Requests 92 |
Load Time 2.1s |
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LCP Timing 0.7s |
Tested from San Jose |
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Page Size 1.9 MB |
Number of Requests 70 |
Load Time 1.0 s |
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LCP Timing 0.7 s |
Tested from UK-London |
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Page Size 2.3 MB |
Number of Requests 59 |
Load Time 1.0s |
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LCP Timing 1.7s |
Tested from San Jose |
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Page Size 588 KB |
Number of Requests 51 |
Load Time 0.972s |
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LCP Timing 0.4s |
Tested from UK- London |
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Page Size 198.2 KB |
Number of Requests 10 |
Load Time 356 ms |
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LCP Timing 0.4 s |
Tested from Washington D.C |
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Page Size 1.9 MB |
Number of Requests 84 |
Load Time 1.4s |
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LCP Timing 1.197s |
Tested from San Jose |
