Is Your Slow Website Costing You Customers? A Speed & Technical SEO Checklist

A slow website frustrates visitors and quietly loses you enquiries. Google also uses page experience, including Core Web Vitals, as part of how it ranks pages. The good news is that most WordPress and WooCommerce speed problems come from a handful of fixable causes.

Check where you stand

Run your homepage and a key service page through Google PageSpeed Insights on mobile. Look at the three Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint (how quickly the main content appears), Interaction to Next Paint (how quickly the page responds) and Cumulative Layout Shift (how much things jump around while loading).

The speed checklist

1. Compress and convert images to WebP, and size them for how they are displayed.
2. Turn on page caching and browser caching, ideally with a CDN.
3. Lazy-load images below the fold, but never the main hero image.
4. Reduce render-blocking CSS and JavaScript, and remove plugins you no longer use.
5. Reserve space for images and embeds with width and height so the layout doesn’t shift.
6. Load fonts efficiently and limit the number of font families and weights.

The technical SEO checklist

1. Fix broken links and update internal links that point to old URLs.
2. Use 301 redirects for pages that moved, and avoid long redirect chains.
3. Clean up your XML sitemap so it lists only live, indexable pages.
4. Validate schema markup so you are eligible for rich results.
5. Check indexing in Google Search Console for excluded or errored pages.

Measure before and after

Record your scores and Core Web Vitals before any changes and again afterwards. That way you can see exactly what improved and make sure nothing broke.

Psyber’s Website Speed & SEO Technical Health Fix

Our Website Speed & SEO Technical Health Fix (₹3,999 + GST) includes PageSpeed optimisation with a 90+ mobile and desktop score target, image compression and WebP conversion, caching, broken link fixes, 301 redirects, XML sitemap clean-up, schema validation and a before-vs-after Core Web Vitals report.

Frequently asked questions

Can every site reach a 90+ PageSpeed score?

90+ is our target. Sites with heavy page builders, many plugins or third-party scripts may land lower; we show you what is holding the score back.

Will speed work break my site?

We take a backup first and test key pages, forms and checkout after each change.

Is this for WordPress only?

The package is designed for WordPress and WooCommerce. Ask us on WhatsApp about other platforms.