Your Website Is Slow and How to Fix It! (2026)

If you’re reading this you’re probably wondering why you’re website is slow.
You’ve check your website performance through https://pagespeed.web.dev/, you’ve spent hours deploying this carefully built masterpiece and suddenly the reflection of the red bars are pouncing from your screen onto your face.
But hey! It’s okay, website performance is fixable and thats why you’re here!

Fixing Page Load Speeds

Image Size and Quality
So you spent hours finding the perfect imagine, logo, photograph of still media to make your website stand out but you didn’t think while spending your time coding that you needed to think about this image differently.
Depending on the size and quality of the image this can significantly increase you page load speeds.
Never fear! You do not need to remove your image because creative websites and app’s can assist us to do this like https://squoosh.app/.

Review Your Plugins
So you attempted to use a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress (go figure) or and got excited by all the SEO plug-ins, Themes, Styles, and Widgets but only decided to use just the one SEO plug-in and keep it simple. This will also create unnecessary load and for no good reason, ensure you review your downloaded plug-in, themes, styles, and widgets so that they are not running when you aren’t using them!

Spaghetti Code (Structured Code)
Going back through your HTML, CSS and JS to ensure your code is structured and also simplified.
For example:
h1 {
color: black;
}

h2 {
color: black;
}

p {
color: black;
}
Should be simplified to (where possible):
h1, h2, p {
color: black;
}
This is reduce file size the more you are able to implement and ensure you run your code through a validator! Let me give you a hand:
https://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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