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Performance and Core Web Vitals

Speed, caching, LiteSpeed and the Core Web Vitals that shape rankings and user experience.

Articles in Performance and Core Web Vitals

Optimising images for faster pages Images are usually the heaviest thing a browser downloads, so optimising them is the fastest way to improve load times and Core Web Vitals. The core moves are... Measuring your site speed with PageSpeed Insights PageSpeed Insights (PSI) is Google's free tool for measuring how fast a page loads and how stable it feels to real visitors. Enter a URL at pagespeed.web.dev, run... LiteSpeed and caching, making SEO sites fast LiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement for the Apache web server, and its big advantage for SEO hosting is a built-in, server-level cache that turns a slow,... Reducing Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how long it takes for the biggest visible element in the viewport, usually a hero image, banner, or large block of text, to... Do you need a CDN, and when A CDN (Content Delivery Network) caches copies of your static files on servers around the world, so visitors download them from a nearby location instead of your... Core Web Vitals, what to fix first Core Web Vitals measure how a real page feels to a real visitor: how fast the main content paints, how quickly the page responds to a tap, and whether the layout... Enabling LiteSpeed Cache on WordPress To enable LiteSpeed Cache on WordPress, install the free LiteSpeed Cache (LSCWP) plugin from the WordPress plugin directory, activate it, and let it connect to the... Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) measures how much visible content moves around while a page loads. To fix it, you reserve space for anything that arrives late...