Largest Contentful Paint
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
How to optimize oldmap.co.uk
Unused CSS blocks initial render for 4.67 seconds and wastes 77KB of bandwidth, directly delaying FCP and LCP.
Use Asset CleanUp Pro or WP Rocket to disable unused CSS from WPForms, FontAwesome, and Elementor widgets on non-relevant pages. Remove 95% unused styles from your theme's style.css by purging with PurgeCSS or switching to a lighter theme. Inline critical above-the-fold CSS for faster rendering.
A score of 59 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.
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 significant performance problems with a poor score of 59/100. The biggest issue is excessive unused CSS (77 KiB) that's blocking the page render and delaying First Contentful Paint by 4.7 seconds, with the main theme stylesheet being 95% unused. The site is also loading 21 KiB of unused JavaScript, primarily from jQuery, and has an extremely slow Largest Contentful Paint of 7.5 seconds. Cleaning up unused CSS and JavaScript, optimizing the complex network dependency chain with 40+ CSS files, and implementing proper font display strategies could dramatically improve load times and user experience.
Why It Matters:
jQuery and other scripts waste 21KB and delay LCP by 150ms while being 69% unused on this product page.
How to Fix:
Install WP Rocket or Flying Scripts to defer jQuery until user interaction. Remove unused JavaScript from Elementor widgets not displayed on product pages. Use WordPress's script loading API to load scripts only where needed with conditional loading.
Why It Matters:
The custom EBGaramond font delays FCP by 100ms causing invisible text during the critical loading phase.
How to Fix:
Add font-display: swap to your @font-face declarations in WordPress Customizer or child theme. Preload the EBGaramond font file using <link rel='preload'> in your theme's functions.php. Consider using system fonts or Google Fonts with proper display optimization for better performance.
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More WordPress Speed Tests
JavaScript is causing expensive layout recalculations that block user interactions for up to 450ms.
CSS files from Elementor and Font Awesome are blocking initial page render and delaying LCP.
Custom fonts are blocking First Contentful Paint for 220ms and lack proper caching headers.
1.5MB of unused JavaScript and 27KB of unused CSS are bloating your page size unnecessarily.