Performance

Common Causes of Slow Websites

Most slow websites share one of a small handful of root causes — and most of them are fixable without a full rebuild.

Unoptimised images

The single most common cause across small business sites — full-resolution photos served at display size, with no compression applied.

Third-party scripts

Every analytics tag, chat widget, and tracking pixel adds load time. Most sites are running more of these than anyone is actually reviewing.

Render-blocking resources

Scripts and stylesheets that must fully load before anything on the page becomes visible create a delay that's disproportionate to their actual size.

Hosting that doesn't match the site's needs

Sometimes the fix isn't the page at all — it's the underlying hosting plan the whole site is sitting on.

No caching strategy

Without browser or server-side caching, every visitor forces a full reload of assets that rarely change.

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