Wordpress Speed Audit for News
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Optimizing Wordpress for the unique performance demands of the News industry.
Why it matters for News
Faster sites retain readers and increase ad revenue.
Avg. Revenue Loss:0.7-1.5%
Wordpress Benchmarks
Typical Wordpress load time: 4.2s
Target Speed:< 3.0s
Proof block
Wordpress + News Data Proof
Combined performance dataset for this specific stack and sector.
Common Issues for Wordpress in News
Plugin bloat
Common Wordpress bottleneck affecting news sites.
Slow hosting
Common Wordpress bottleneck affecting news sites.
Render-blocking JS
Common Wordpress bottleneck affecting news sites.
render-blocking assets
Critical CSS and synchronous scripts block first render and delay Largest Contentful Paint.
Recommended Fixes
Caching plugins
Proven to improve Wordpress performance in news.
CDN
Proven to improve Wordpress performance in news.
Optimized hosting
Proven to improve Wordpress performance in news.
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