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Website speed optimization so visitors stay long enough to call
On a phone with weak signal, every extra second loses visitors. We find what slows your site, fix it and show you the before and after in Google's own tools.
PageSpeed Insights
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Report from Oct 20, 2026, 3:48:54 p.m.
https://www.solanavetclinicsurrey.ca/Analyze
MobileDesktop
What your real users are experiencingThis URLOrigin
Core Web Vitals Assessment: Passed
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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
Other Notable Metrics
First Contentful Paint (FCP)
Time to First Byte (TTFB)
Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed
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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
Other Notable Metrics
First Contentful Paint (FCP)
Time to First Byte (TTFB)
Latest 28-day collection periodVarious mobile devicesFull visit durationsVarious network connections
Diagnose performance issues
100Performance
100Accessibility
100Best Practices
100SEO
2/2Agentic browsing
100Performance
Values are estimated and may vary. The performance score is calculated directly from these metrics. See calculator.
0–4950–8990–100
Vet in Langley with same-day appointments
Dogs and cats. Urgent care until 10 p.m.
Text us to book
Directions
Vaccines and checkups
Surgery and ultrasound
Urgent care
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First Contentful Paint
0.8 s
Largest Contentful Paint
0.9 s
Total Blocking Time
0 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift
0
Speed Index
0.9 s
Captured at Oct 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m. PDTEmulated Moto G Power with Lighthouse 13.5.0Initial page loadSlow 4G throttling
Your site takes its time, and visitors don't wait
Signs that speed is costing you calls.
- PageSpeed Insights gives your site a red score on mobile.
- The home page shows a spinning loader for three seconds before anything appears.
- You installed a speed plugin and the site got slower.
- Customers in rural areas tell you the site never finishes loading.
What changes when the site opens before people give up
How we get there
We find what actually slows each page (oversized images, plugins loading on every screen, a slow server, third-party scripts) and fix it in order of impact, testing each change.
You get the before and after from PageSpeed Insights and, once Google has enough visits, from its real-user data in Search Console.
Something on screen right away
Your important pages show their main content quickly, even on a weak signal.
LCP under 2.5 s as the target
Passes Google's speed check on real phones
The measurements Google takes from real visitors, fixed where they fail.
Core Web Vitals: LCP, INP and CLS
Before and after, measured
Every page tested before and after with the same Google tool, so you see the difference yourself.
PageSpeed Insights
How the speed work runs, measured at every stage
Four stages, measured before and after each one.
Measure
Your important pages tested on a phone, with lab tests and real visitor data where Google has it.
Find what slows it
What holds back each page, ranked by how much it costs you.
Fix it on a copy
Images, scripts, fonts, caching and hosting fixed as set in your proposal, tested before anything goes live.
Measure again
The same pages tested again with the same tool, and the before and after sent to you.
What our speed optimization work covers
Every fix is tested before it goes live. The price goes in your proposal.
- Photos that load fast
- Only the code each page needs
- A server that answers fast
- A page that doesn't jump or freeze
- A before and after you can read
We test your site on a phone connection and show you what slows it down
We run your main pages through PageSpeed Insights and a throttled phone connection and send you the results: how long they take, what loads first and the three things slowing them most.
- What we found
- The plan, page by page
- The fixed quote
- What we wouldn't do
Carles builds your site, and he's the one who reviews it in the audit. Òscar makes sure Google understands it. Who we are
audit · bywardbakehouse.ca
sample document
1 · What we found
Your home page takes 8 seconds on a phone: a 6 MB header photo, a slider and four plugins loading on every page.
2 · What we'd fix, in order
- Images resized and compressed
- Slider replaced with one photo
- Plugins cut from 31 to 14
- Hosting moved closer to Ottawa
3 · Fixed quote
- Price
- Fixed, in your proposal
- Paid
- Once the fixes are live
- Up front
- Nothing
- Until then
- CA$0
You pay for the speed work once the site is faster and measured
How paying at the end worksQuestions about making a website faster
What owners ask about slow websites. Yours can go in the form.
What do website speed optimization services include?
Compressing and resizing images, removing or replacing heavy plugins and scripts, caching, cleaning up the database and moving to better hosting if needed. Each change is tested and measured before and after.
How much does it cost to speed up a website?
Speed work is billed by the hour: web design agencies on Clutch mostly charge US$25-US$49/hour for WordPress, Wix or Shopify work. Ours depends on how the site is built and what's slowing it. After the free check you get a fixed price in your proposal, and you pay once the fixes are live and you've seen the before and after.
Does website speed affect Google rankings?
It's one of the signals Google uses, through Core Web Vitals, though content and relevance weigh more. The bigger effect is on visitors: a slow page loses them before they read anything, whatever its ranking.
Will a speed plugin fix my WordPress site?
Sometimes it helps, often it doesn't, and stacking several can make things worse. The cause is usually images, a heavy theme or plugins loading everywhere. We fix the cause and keep only what's needed.
Should my website be hosted in Canada?
Hosting close to your customers usually makes the site faster, and some clients prefer their data stored in Canada. It's not the only factor: a well-built site on a nearby server with a CDN beats a heavy one on any server.
Website speed optimization makes pages load faster, especially on phones: compressing images, removing heavy plugins and scripts, caching, and moving to better hosting if needed. We measure with PageSpeed Insights and Google's real-user data before and after.
More detail: Website speed
Google measures your speed with real visitors, every day
Google's Core Web Vitals consider loading good when the main content appears within 2.5 seconds for real visitors (web.dev). A slow site loses visitors before they read a word, and the people you paid ads to bring in leave too.
The free audit includes a speed test of your site on a phone and what's slowing it down.
Speed for Canadian visitors: distance, signal and where the site lives
Canada is big, and plenty of your customers open your site on a highway or in a small town with patchy LTE. A page that loads well on office Wi-Fi in Toronto can crawl there, so we test on a throttled phone connection, which is closer to what those visitors get.
Where the site is hosted matters too: a server far from your customers adds delay to every request. We recommend hosting close to them, with a CDN where it helps, and keep the cookie banner light so it doesn't slow the first screen.
Faster WordPress sites: plugins, hosting and image sizes
Many small business sites run on WordPress, and their slowness usually has the same three causes. Each one has a fix that doesn't require a new site.
Plugins that load everywhere
A slider, a form builder or a chat widget can load its code on every page, even where it isn't used. We remove what you don't need and limit the rest to the pages that use it.
Hosting that answers slowly
Cheap shared hosting can take a long time just to start sending the page. Caching helps; sometimes a better plan is the real fix, and we say so.
server response time
Images straight from the camera
Photos several megabytes each, shown at a fraction of their size. Resizing and modern formats make them a fraction of the weight.
Core Web Vitals for business owners, in plain terms
Core Web Vitals are three measurements Google uses to judge page experience: how long the main content takes to appear (LCP), how quickly the page responds when you tap something (INP) and how much the layout jumps while loading (CLS). Google's targets are 2.5 seconds or less for LCP, 200 milliseconds or less for INP and 0.1 or less for CLS (web.dev).
We aim for those targets on your important pages, which matter more than a perfect score on every tool. If speed is only one of several problems, an SEO audit or a website redesign may be the better place to start.
What's included, point by point
Photos that load fast
Modern formats, the right size for each screen and images below the fold loaded only when needed.
AVIF and WebP, lazy loading
Only the code each page needs
Unused plugins and scripts removed, and the rest loaded when it's needed.
script cleanup and deferral
A server that answers fast
Caching set up and, if needed, a hosting recommendation in your name.
CDN and server response time
A page that doesn't jump or freeze
Content that shifts while loading and buttons that respond late, fixed.
CLS and INP
A before and after you can read
Measurements for each page, in plain English.
When speed work pays off, and when the site needs more than that
Worth it if
- Your site is slow on a phone.
- You want to keep your current site if possible.
- You can give us access to the site and the hosting.
Not a fit if
- You want a perfect score on every tool, whatever it costs.
- Your site needs a full rebuild anyway.
- You can't give access to the site.
More on websites that load quickly
What works alongside speed optimization
Guides on websites
Your next visitor is opening your site on a phone. Let it load before they lose patience.
Send us your web address and in under a week we'll tell you what's slowing it down and what fixing it would take.
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