Baseline and diagnosis
A review of reproducible lab data, field signals when available, server response, page weight, requests, and rendering behavior.
WordPress performance optimization
Find the real bottlenecks before adding another optimization plugin.
WPGeared reviews hosting response, themes, plugins, assets, fonts, JavaScript, caching, database overhead, and Core Web Vitals signals. The objective is a faster and more stable experience without breaking revenue-critical features.
Good fit
When this service makes sense
- A WordPress site that feels slow on mobile
- A site failing one or more Core Web Vitals assessments
- A publisher carrying years of plugin and database overhead
- A redesign or migration that needs a performance baseline
Scope
What the engagement covers
WordPress cleanup
Targeted work on plugins, theme output, database overhead, revisions, scheduled tasks, and avoidable frontend payloads.
Delivery optimization
Caching, compression, image formats, fonts, script loading, CDN behavior, and host-level settings where access allows.
Validation report
Before-and-after test conditions, changes made, remaining constraints, and recommendations for ongoing monitoring.
Delivery
A visible process from review to handoff
- 01
Measure
We establish test pages and conditions instead of optimizing one convenient screenshot.
- 02
Prioritize
Changes are ranked by user impact, implementation risk, and compatibility with business features.
- 03
Optimize
Work is completed on staging or with a current backup and an agreed rollback path.
- 04
Verify
Key pages, forms, analytics, advertising, and ecommerce behavior are checked after changes.
Engagement options
Clear starting points, confirmed scope
Published prices are in USD and describe a starting scope. Your brief is reviewed before work, access, timing, and final price are confirmed in writing.
Performance optimization
From $399
A focused implementation engagement after the site and priority templates have been reviewed.
- Technical baseline
- Agreed optimization work
- Functional regression check
- Before-and-after summary
Audit only
Custom scope
For teams that need an independent diagnosis and prioritized plan before deciding who implements it.
- Template sampling
- Bottleneck analysis
- Risk and dependency notes
- Prioritized recommendations
Before you book
Important boundaries
- PageSpeed scores vary by device, network, test location, page, and third-party scripts; WPGeared does not promise a fixed score.
- Some improvements require hosting, theme, advertising, analytics, or plugin changes that remain the client's decision.
- Field Core Web Vitals reflect real-user data over time and may not change immediately after deployment.
Questions
What clients ask first
Will optimization change the design?
Not without approval. If a design element or third-party feature has a meaningful performance cost, the report explains the tradeoff before it is removed or replaced.
Can you optimize an ecommerce site?
Yes, after reviewing platform, traffic, integrations, and a safe staging or rollback plan. Checkout and account flows receive explicit regression checks.
Is a caching plugin enough?
Sometimes caching helps substantially, but it does not fix every server, database, image, script, font, or layout problem. Diagnosis comes first.
Next step