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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.

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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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