Website Speed Performance Optimization for Wordpress, Joomla & Shopify

The speed of your website is important to Google search algorithms and will impact your websites rankings on Google "Search Engine Results Pages" (SERP's). Having redeveloped many websites for clients in the Chicago area over the years, we have observed that our clients previous web designers and/or other website development companies are more concerned with how pretty a website looks, than how a website performs. These amateurs often overlook implementing a true content development strategy and/or have zero consideration for speed and performance.

You can check how various pages on your website perform using Google's PageSpeed Insight Tool. Analyzing your website with this tool will help you discover what is slowing your website down.

Google summarizes their scan and results in 6 metrics: (Text content & links provided below by https://pagespeed.web.dev)

1. First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted. Learn more about the First Contentful Paint metric.

2. Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted. Learn more about the Largest Contentful Paint metric.

3. Total Blocking Time Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds. Learn more about the Total Blocking Time metric.

4. Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift measures the movement of visible elements within the viewport. Learn more about the Cumulative Layout Shift metric.

5. Speed Index Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated. Learn more about the Speed Index metric.

Google PageSpeed Insights will then convey "opportunities" or actions you can take to help satisfy their diagnostic scan. However, understanding and implementing some of these actions or solutions is not easy for most website owners.

AdverGroup is a local website design and development company specializing in speed and performance optimization for Wordpress, Joomla and Shopify. We can help you with optimizing your website speed, so that Google will rank your website higher on its SERP's. We offer a wide range of services such as SEO optimization, image compression, page caching and content delivery networks (CDN) to help increase the loading time of your website. Additionally, we provide analytics reports so that you can see how much impact our optimization has on your website performance.

We have designed and developed hundreds, if not thousands of websites using Wordpress, Joomla and Shopify. Therefore, we know which themes, templates, apps, plugins, modules and/or components to use that can help optimize the performance of your Wordpress, Joomla and Shopify website.

vContact us today to find out more about how we can help you take your Wordpress, Joomla and/or Shopify website speed and performance to the next level!