Estate agent websites

Estate Agent Website Speed Guide

Property listing pages are naturally photo-heavy, which makes them disproportionately vulnerable to the most common cause of slow websites: unoptimised images.

Compress every listing photo

Full-resolution camera output served directly, without compression, is the single most common cause of slow listing pages.

Lazy-load images below the fold

Loading every photo in a gallery immediately, rather than as the visitor scrolls to them, wastes load time on images nobody's looking at yet.

Limit third-party scripts on listing pages

Chat widgets, tracking pixels, and embedded map scripts all add real weight — listing pages are the worst place on your site to accumulate this overhead.

Test on mobile specifically

Buyers often browse listings while physically in a neighbourhood, on mobile data rather than home wifi — a genuinely different performance environment from desktop.

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