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How to Remove Unused CSS

How to Remove Unused CSS in WordPress

Any unused CSS on your page can cause a delay in first rendering content because it takes more time for the browser to process and download the needed CSS files. You have to remove unused CSS to optimize your web page and ensure it loads quickly when a visitor accesses it.

In this article, we’ll explain how you can fix the “remove unused CSS” warning from the Google PageSpeed Insights test.

How to Avoid Chaining Critical Requests

How to Avoid Chaining Critical Requests

As a WooCommerce store owner, you don’t want customers to experience poor page load speeds and response times. This causes a poor user experience that leads to visitors bouncing off your website sooner than they had planned to, without seeing your product catalog.

Chaining critical requests can cause slower page load times and poor response times on your web page. All critical resources are being rendered in the same order that’s mentioned in your HTML code. As a result, it can delay the first content rendering on the visitor’s screen depending on the size of the resource and the length of the chain.

How to Defer Offscreen Images in WordPress

How to Defer Offscreen Images in WordPress

As a WooCommerce store owner, you don’t want prospective customers to land on a blank, empty web page that shows no signs of content being rendered on it. This causes a poor user experience that can lead to visitors bouncing off your website.

Since images are the largest, resource-heavy elements on your web pages, optimizing them is a great way to reduce page load times on your site. This is particularly important for eCommerce sites that have lots of images on the main page, shop page, and category pages.

How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources

How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources

If you run a WooCommerce store, you don’t want visitors landing on your shop page only to be greeted with a blank white screen. This happens when users aren’t able to see any content on your website due to render-blocking issues. They’ll see content when it finishes downloading.

This not only causes visitors to bounce off your website immediately but also makes your website appear to be broken. Most site visitors will only stick around for about 2 seconds waiting for content to show up on their screens. After that, they’ll bounce off and, most likely, never come back.

How to improve First Contentful Paint (FCP)

How to improve First Contentful Paint (FCP)

When a user visits your store, the last thing you want them to think is: Is this site broken? This can happen due to First Contentful Paint issues.

For those unfamiliar, First Contentful Paint issues occur when the web page is being downloaded and users can’t see any content being rendered onto their screen after a few seconds. This not only makes for a poor user experience but also can cause visitors to bounce off immediately.

With this in mind, in this article, we’ll explain what First Contentful Paint means and what causes FCP issues on your web pages. We’ll also take a look at various ways you can fix First Contentful Paint issues to help load web pages faster.

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