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5 issues available in performance.
Issue 13
Your "where to find us" map is the heaviest thing on the page
Maps are one of the heaviest things on a WordPress page, and the usual plugins make it worse by installing a whole page-builder ecosystem to show eight venues. Here's what a map plugin actually needs — geocoding, pin clustering, category filters and CSV bulk edits — plus the shortcode-driven one I built.
Issue 11
The video on your homepage is 200MB
Phones shoot 4K, WordPress accepts the file without comment, and your mobile visitors pay for it. Server-side optimisation isn't an option on managed hosting with no ffmpeg. Here's what web-ready actually means — H.264, 1080p, CRF 23, faststart — and a plugin that transcodes in the editor's own browser.
Issue 9
Your site got slower. Do you know what changed?
Every WordPress site slows down eventually, but almost none can say what caused it. Aftercare is a free, open-source plugin that records your daily Core Web Vitals from real Chrome users alongside a plain-English ledger of every change made to the site, then lines the two up when a metric breaches its budget.
Issue 5
Why your WordPress site feels slow
Most WordPress sites fail Core Web Vitals for the same handful of reasons. How to find your worst offender — your LCP element — in five minutes, and what to do about it.
Issue 1
Start here: the first fix
The inaugural issue — what One WordPress Fix a Week is, what to expect each week, and a 15-minute plugin clean-up that quietly speeds up almost every site.