Page speed matters.

Get ahead of the competition by having a well optimised and fast-loading website.

Bounce Rate

If your site takes up to 5 seconds to load the probability of bounce increases by 90%. A high bounce rate will negatively affect your SEO rankings and loose you potential customers.

Fix your website's speed by purchasing the Optimization Services package below.

WordPress Optimization Services

£299 / per site

HTML Optimisation
JavaScript Optimisation
CSS Optimisation
Image Optimisation
Browser Caching

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Why you should optmize your site

Improved UX

Faster site speed = better user experience!

Better SEO

Faster WordPress site = better ranking!

Conversions

Higher rankings + happy users = more conversions!

Our Process

Optimize Images

We make sure that the images on your site are as optimized as they can be to reduce their file size without significantly impacting their visual quality.

Optimize CSS Delivery

We look at your stylesheets to figure out which ones can be safely minimized to reduce their delivery time while keeping all the functions our your site working properly.

Minify Resources

Minification is what typically breaks most themes and plugins. We have a system in place to take your minification as far as possible while keeping your site working as expected.

Enable Compression

We take advantage of the compression installed on your servers to make sure your cache and other files are maximizing the resources available to your website.

Get your site from slow to lightning fast!

Frequently asked questions

How does Page Speed affect SEO?

Did you know that ongoing scientific studies have shown that between 2000 and 2016, the average human attention span dropped from 12 seconds to 7 seconds?

This means that as a website owner you have a very short time to show users your content and convince them to stay on your website.

In terms of SERPS placement, Google and other search engines have already started penalizing slower websites by pushing them down in the search results which means lower SERPs ratings for slow websites, regardless of how great and well optimized their content might be.

How do I check my website speed?

Often people think that their WordPress website is performing well just because it doesn’t seem slow on their computer. However, that’s a big mistake. As you frequently visit your own website, most browsers – including Chrome and Firefox – store your website in their cache memory and automatically ‘prefetch ‘it as soon as you start typing an address. This then loads your website almost instantly, giving the illusion that everything is fine. However, a new user who is visiting your website for the first time may not have the same experience at all. To find out how fast your WordPress site is for these users you need to test it.

There are various tools to test your speed such as:

Google PageSpeed Insights
Pingdom
GTMetrix

Get in touch with us for a free test & speed analysis!

Can you get my website to load under 1 second?

On high quality hosting, with a well built website theme you can expect a well built site to load in 1-1.5 seconds in the country where it’s hosted.

For your overseas visitors, expect to see an additional 0.5-1 second additional load time for them. We recommend all sites use Cloudflare as this will help speed up the site for your overseas visitors quite significantly.

To get below that magical 1 second mark most sites need to start looking at removing tracking codes, plugins and externally hosted elements like Facebook and Twitter social widgets and like boxes, and Youtube videos.

Generally we don’t have any control over what these third party elements do so if speed is your number 1 priority than reducing the number of these elements on your site is critical – we can advise on the best course of action here and often there are things that can be done to reduce the impact these elements have on load speed.

Should I change my hosting provider?

That depends.

If you’re using Bluehost, Godaddy, Hostgator, A Small Orange or any
other EIG owned company you’ll probably need to move to get your site loading super fast. The only way cheap companies make any money on those $3-5/month hosting plans is to stack 10,000 other websites on the same server and run the server as hard as possible.

We find that we can get sites running on these services down to a passable 3-5 second load time BUT the site will struggle to handle more than a handful of simultaneous users at a time.

When it comes to hosting you get what you pay for – it’s unreasonable to expect a high quality service when you pay more for a coffee than you do
for an entire month of hosting.

Typically we’ll recommend Cloudways for customers that want a balance between costs and performance.

My website was not build by 789Labs, can it be optimised?