Performance

How to Fix a Slow Website

Fixing a slow website is easier when you stop treating all performance issues as equal. Most smaller sites have a few obvious blockers doing most of the damage.

Start with the heaviest pages

The homepage, key landing pages, and top blog posts usually deserve attention first. A heavy page that receives most of your visits is a better target than a slow page no one sees.

Reduce image weight early

Oversized hero images and large screenshots are some of the most common reasons smaller sites feel slow. Compress them, resize them, and avoid loading huge images when a er version would do the job.

Cut unnecessary requests and scripts

Too many third-party scripts, trackers, font files, or front-end extras can slow down an otherwise simple page. Remove what is not helping users.

Review server response and page weight together

A page can feel slow because the server responds slowly, because the page is too heavy, or both. Looking at both helps you avoid fixing only half the problem.

Next step

Use the Website Performance Audit to review page weight, requests, and Core Web Vitals, or read How to Improve Core Web Vitals for the metric-specific view.