Largest Contentful Paint
Good: < 2.5s
Measures how long it takes for the main content to appear on screen
How to optimize protinews.com.gr
67% of your CSS (13 KiB) goes unused, creating unnecessary network overhead.
Install Asset CleanUp Pro or Autoptimize WordPress plugin to identify and remove unused CSS. Focus on mobile-specific CSS rules that aren't needed. Use critical CSS techniques to inline above-the-fold styles and defer the rest using plugins like WP Rocket or LiteSpeed Cache.
A score of 97 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 performs excellently with a score of 97/100, indicating very fast loading times for users. The biggest optimization opportunity is converting large GIF files to modern video formats, which could save nearly 1MB of data and improve your Largest Contentful Paint by 300ms. While the site is already well-optimized, reducing unused CSS (13KB savings) and adding fetchpriority="high" to your main images would provide additional performance gains. Overall, this site delivers a great user experience with just minor room for improvement in image optimization.
Why It Matters:
Large GIF files are causing 965 KiB of wasted bytes and delaying LCP by 300ms.
How to Fix:
Replace the three large GIF files (2new-300x169.gif, 11-300x169.gif, 3new-300x169.gif) with MP4 or WebM video formats using tools like CloudConvert or FFmpeg. Update your WordPress media library and template files to use HTML5 video tags with autoplay and loop attributes instead of img tags.
Why It Matters:
The LCP image lacks fetchpriority='high' which could improve loading performance.
How to Fix:
Identify your main hero image or featured post thumbnail in your WordPress theme. Add fetchpriority='high' attribute to the LCP image element in your theme's template files (likely header.php or index.php). Ensure this image is not lazy-loaded and appears early in the HTML document.
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More WordPress Speed Tests
The LCP image lacks fetchpriority='high' which could improve loading performance.
Large GIF files are causing 965 KiB of wasted bytes and delaying LCP by 300ms.
Large image files like gold-shimmer.jpg (895KB) are significantly slowing page load and could be reduced by 971KB total across all images.
323KB of unused JavaScript and 125KB of unused CSS are unnecessarily increasing load times and blocking the main thread.