Largest Contentful Paint
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
How to optimize aarontgrogg.com
Your profile image wastes 85KB which could be reduced by 30-50% with modern formats.
Install WebP Express or ShortPixel plugin to automatically convert PNG/JPEG to WebP. Replace your profile image at /resume/Atg-clean.png with WebP version. Add fallback support for older browsers using <picture> element in your theme template.
A score of 99 falls in the "Good" range (50-89). While it is better than poor (0-49), you should aim for 90+ to provide an optimal user experience and maximize SEO benefits.
This site is slower than approximately 35% of similar sites. The main issues affecting performance are image optimization, JavaScript execution time, and layout stability.
Addressing these issues could improve your conversion rate by 15-20% and boost your search engine rankings.
Largest Contentful Paint
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
Interaction to Next Paint
Good: < 200ms
Measures how quickly the page responds to user interactions
Cumulative Layout Shift
Good: < 0.1
Measures visual stability - how much content shifts during page load
This WordPress site has excellent performance with an outstanding score of 99/100, indicating very fast loading times for users. The biggest remaining issue is render-blocking CSS that's delaying page rendering by about 130ms, specifically the main stylesheet that prevents content from appearing until it's fully downloaded. Additionally, the site could benefit from extending cache lifetimes for Cloudflare scripts (saving about 5KB) and converting the profile image to a modern format like WebP to reduce its size by 83KB. These are relatively minor optimizations that would polish an already well-performing website.
Why It Matters:
Your main stylesheet blocks initial page render, delaying both FCP and LCP by 150ms.
How to Fix:
Inline critical CSS directly in your WordPress theme's header.php for above-the-fold content. Use loadCSS or a plugin like Autoptimize to defer non-critical CSS. Consider splitting your style-new.css into critical and non-critical portions.
Why It Matters:
Short cache durations force unnecessary re-downloads on repeat visits, slowing LCP by 150ms.
How to Fix:
Configure Cloudflare to cache static assets for at least 1 year (31536000 seconds). Add cache-control headers via WordPress .htaccess or use W3 Total Cache plugin. Set longer cache times for your theme CSS and Cloudflare's beacon.min.js.
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More WordPress Speed Tests
The 664KB hero background image is delaying LCP by 1.6 seconds as it's not optimized or prioritized.
Over 2.4MB of unused JavaScript and 411KB of unused CSS are slowing LCP by 7+ seconds.
Critical CSS and JavaScript files are blocking initial page render, delaying FCP by 4.4 seconds.
Short cache durations force unnecessary re-downloads on repeat visits, slowing LCP by 150ms.