LCP
Largest Contentful Paint
8.3s
Poor
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
Optimize Image Delivery and Compression
How to optimize southwakesabres.org
Optimize Image Delivery and Compression
High Impact+25 points estimated
Why It Matters
Oversized images waste 10,664 KiB and delay LCP by 2.35 seconds.
How to Fix
Install a WordPress optimization plugin like ShortPixel or Imagify to automatically compress images to WebP format. Resize the team photos (currently 1024px) to match their display size of 634px. Add fetchpriority='high' to the LCP image in your slider element.
0Needs Improvement
What This Score Means
A score of 52 falls in the "Needs Improvement" 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.
Core Web Vitals Analysis
INP
Interaction to Next Paint
240ms
Needs Improvement
Good: < 200ms
Measures how quickly the page responds to user interactions
CLS
Cumulative Layout Shift
0.09
Good
Good: < 0.1
Measures visual stability - how much content shifts during page load
AI Performance Analysis
This WordPress site has poor performance with a score of 52/100, indicating significant user experience issues. The biggest problem is extremely slow page interactivity, with the site taking a staggering 58 seconds to become fully interactive and 8.3 seconds for the largest content to appear. The primary culprit is oversized, unoptimized images that are over 10MB larger than necessary - these team photos and championship images need to be compressed and converted to modern formats like WebP. Additionally, the site is loading excessive unused CSS and JavaScript (over 700KB of wasted code), blocking critical rendering and severely impacting load times.
Other Optimization Recommendations
Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources
High Impact+20 points estimatedWhy It Matters:
CSS and font files block initial page rendering, delaying FCP by 4.38 seconds.
How to Fix:
Use a caching plugin like WP Rocket to defer non-critical CSS. Add font-display: swap to custom fonts in Elementor settings. Move large CSS files like dashicons (36KB) to load after critical content using async or defer attributes.
Remove Unused CSS and JavaScript
Medium Impact+12 points estimatedWhy It Matters:
Unused code wastes 730 KiB of bandwidth and delays page interactivity.
How to Fix:
Install Asset CleanUp plugin to disable unused Ultimate Member and YouTube embed resources on non-relevant pages. Remove 99% unused FontAwesome CSS by loading only required icons. Audit and deactivate unnecessary WordPress plugins causing code bloat.
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WordPress Performance Resources
Fix Placeholder Image Loading
Multiple placeholder images are loading instead of actual content, indicating a lazy loading configuration issue affecting LCP.
Optimize Elementor Performance Settings
Elementor's default configuration loads excessive CSS and JavaScript, blocking rendering and increasing load times.
Add Explicit Image Dimensions
Images without width and height attributes cause layout shifts during loading, directly harming your CLS score.
Remove Unused JavaScript Code
75% of PTGuiViewer.js (22KB) goes unused, wasting bandwidth and parse time.