PERFORMANCE BASICS
Website Speed Basics for Local Business Owners
A non-technical introduction to why site speed matters and simple ways to check it.
Test on your own phone first
Load your site on mobile data, not just office WiFi, to see what most visitors actually experience.
Large images are the most common cause
Oversized, uncompressed photos are usually the biggest reason a small business site feels slow.
Fix the worst offenders first
A few heavy pages usually explain most of the slowness — prioritise those before a full rebuild.