Why is my WordPress site slow? The seven usual causes
The seven things that actually make WordPress sites slow, how to tell which one is yours, and what to fix first — measured with field data, not lab scores.
· 5 min readInsights
WordPress performance work with numbers attached. Caching layers and how they conflict, database queries that grow with your content, image and font delivery, and Core Web Vitals measured on real pages rather than a synthetic homepage test. Where a fix has a trade-off, these say so.
The seven things that actually make WordPress sites slow, how to tell which one is yours, and what to fix first — measured with field data, not lab scores.
· 5 min readPageSpeed splits LCP into four phases. Find the one that dominates before optimising — and stop lazy-loading the hero image.
· 6 min readCLS is impact times distance, so one banner can fail a page alone. Find the big shift, reserve the space, make the font swap invisible.
· 5 min readFind where the weight actually is before deleting anything. Autoload, orphaned rows, tables left by dead plugins — and the missing index that is the real win.
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