Page speed is one of the few technical SEO factors that directly affects every visitor, every pageview, and every conversion. It's also one of the easiest areas to get wrong — a single oversized hero image, a blocking third-party script, or a slow database query can tank Core Web Vitals scores and push a site down the rankings. These guides cover the metrics that matter most (LCP, INP, CLS, TTFB), how to diagnose which one is hurting you, and the specific fixes that give the biggest speed gains for the least engineering effort. Written by developers who care about real-world performance, not synthetic benchmark scores.

Render-Blocking Resources: How to Find and Fix

5 May 2026

Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript delay first paint. How to identify them, async vs defer, critical CSS, and the fixes.

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Caching Headers Explained

27 April 2026

Cache-Control, ETag, and the patterns that make returning visitors load instantly. Practical caching strategy.

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The Practical Image Optimisation Guide

27 April 2026

Modern formats (WebP, AVIF), responsive sizing, lazy-loading, CDN transformation, and the trade-offs that actually matter.

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Interaction to Next Paint (INP): The New Web Vital

27 April 2026

INP replaced FID in March 2024. Why it matters, the causes of high INP, and the practical fixes for responsiveness.

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Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Causes and Fixes

Updated 29 September 2026

How the CLS score is calculated, how to find what is shifting, and the fixes that bring it to 0.1 or less, including Shopify.

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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): What It Is and How to Fix It

Updated 29 September 2026

How to find your LCP element, which of its four phases is slow, and the fix for each, including WordPress.

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Why Mobile Page Speed Matters for SEO

24 March 2026

With Google's mobile-first indexing, your mobile page speed directly affects your search rankings. Learn why mobile performance is critical and how to optimise for it.

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10 Proven Ways to Speed Up Your Website

24 March 2026

From image optimisation to render-blocking resources, these ten practical techniques will make a measurable difference to your page load times.

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Core Web Vitals in 2026: Thresholds, INP and What Changed

Updated 29 September 2026

LCP, INP and CLS thresholds at a glance, how Google assesses a page, and the timeline from FID to INP.

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