What our audit analyzes

Web Performance & SEO

Loading speed is a Google ranking factor. Discover how to optimize Core Web Vitals and improve user experience.

Why is performance crucial for SEO?

Since 2021, Google uses Core Web Vitals as an official ranking factor. A slow site loses not only positions in search results, but also visitors: 53% of users leave a mobile site that takes more than 3 seconds to load.

Performance also impacts conversion rate, bounce rate, and user engagement. Investing in your site's speed is one of the best ROI SEO optimizations.

Core Web Vitals Explained

LCP

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)

LCP measures the time needed to display the largest visible element on the page (image, video, or text block). It's an indicator of perceived loading speed.

≤ 2.5s
Good
≤ 4s
Needs improvement
> 4s
Poor

How to improve:

  • Optimize your images (WebP, lazy loading)
  • Use a CDN to serve content
  • Reduce server response time (TTFB)
INP

Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

INP (which replaced FID since March 2024) measures your site's responsiveness to user interactions (clicks, taps, input). It's the interaction latency.

≤ 200ms
Good
≤ 500ms
Needs improvement
> 500ms
Poor

How to improve:

  • Reduce blocking JavaScript
  • Defer non-critical scripts (defer, async)
  • Avoid long tasks on the main thread
CLS

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

CLS measures the visual stability of your page. It quantifies unexpected layout shifts during loading (when a button moves just as you were about to click it).

≤ 0.1
Good
≤ 0.25
Needs improvement
> 0.25
Poor

How to improve:

  • Define image dimensions (width/height)
  • Reserve space for ads and embeds
  • Avoid injecting content above existing content

Essential Server Optimizations

GZIP/Brotli Compression

Compression reduces HTML, CSS and JS file sizes by 60-80%, significantly speeding up transfer.

Average reduction: 70%

Browser Cache

Configure Cache-Control headers so static resources are stored locally.

Near-instant loading for returning visitors

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Serve your content from servers close to your users to reduce latency.

Latency reduction: 50-70%

Time To First Byte (TTFB)

Optimize your server response time. Target: less than 200ms.

Direct impact on LCP

What our audit checks

Our tool automatically measures performance metrics via the Google PageSpeed Insights API and gives you separate scores for mobile and desktop.

Server response time (TTFB)
GZIP/Brotli compression
Mobile PageSpeed score
Desktop PageSpeed score
Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS)
Total page size
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