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Why your site is slow, and what actually fixes it
Most speed advice is a list of twelve things to try, which is what you write when you have not measured. This hub covers the other order: reproduce the slowness, open the network waterfall or the build output, find the request or the query that actually costs the time, and change that. Caching is a way of hiding a slow page, not of making one fast, and knowing the difference is most of the work. DFYe's own widget is 7.1kB and loads after paint, measured on every build against a budget the build enforces.
What this hub covers
- Reading the waterfall before changing anything
- What a plugin really costs a page
- WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify specifics
- Caching, and when it hides the real problem
Related topic hubs
Named across this hub: WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Core Web Vitals, Elementor, Divi, PHP.
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