Largest Contentful Paint
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
How to optimize solsticehw.com
Massive 4.7 second element render delay prevents LCP element from displaying quickly.
Enable Divi's Performance settings to disable unused modules and features. Use Divi Booster or custom functions.php to remove unnecessary CSS/JS. Consider switching to a lighter WordPress theme like GeneratePress for better Core Web Vitals.
A score of 48 falls in the "Poor" 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 poor performance with a score of 48/100, indicating significant user experience issues. The biggest problem is web fonts loading slowly and causing massive layout shifts (0.96 CLS score), which makes content jump around as multiple Google Fonts (Montserrat and Crimson Text) load in. Additionally, the site is weighed down by 141KB of unused CSS and render-blocking stylesheets that delay the first paint by over 3 seconds. Fixing the font loading strategy with font-display: swap and preloading critical fonts, along with cleaning up unused CSS from the Divi theme, could improve the performance score by 30+ points and eliminate the jarring layout shifts.
Why It Matters:
Web font loading causes massive 0.96 CLS score destroying user experience and Core Web Vitals.
How to Fix:
Add font-display: swap to Google Fonts CSS. Use rel='preload' for critical Montserrat and Crimson Text fonts in WordPress header. Consider self-hosting fonts or switching to system fonts to eliminate layout shifts entirely.
Why It Matters:
CSS files block initial render for 1.2 seconds, severely delaying LCP and FCP.
How to Fix:
Use WP Rocket or Autoptimize to inline critical CSS for above-the-fold content. Defer non-critical CSS from Divi Pixel and Monarch plugins using loadCSS. Remove 141KB of unused CSS rules from Divi theme stylesheets.
Once your site is optimized, maintain that speed. Use DeployHQ for zero-downtime, automated deployments—so performance fixes and updates go live safely every time, without breaking your site.
Get AI-powered performance insights with actionable fixes in 30 seconds
More WordPress Speed Tests
74KB of unused JavaScript from Divi theme delays page interactivity and wastes bandwidth on mobile connections.
143 KiB of unused CSS is wasting bandwidth and slowing down initial page rendering.
Critical CSS files are blocking page rendering and delaying LCP by 2.2 seconds.
Header logo loads at 768x363 but displays at 245x116, wasting 21KB and slowing visual completion.