Google PageSpeed Core Web Vitals Audit for <Site Name>
This is your frontend audit for WordPress and WooCommerce sites. See here for the backend audit sample.
🛠️ Fixes Attempted
This section is for the exploratory audit version (not included in the basic audit).
1. Fix 1 for problem X
- What we hoped it would fix with evidence – intended wishful outcome
- Results – actual outcome
- Any cautions/warnings for the future
2. Fix 2 for problem Y
- What we hoped it would fix with evidence – hopeful outcome
- Results – actual outcome
- Any cautions/warnings for the future
🦄 Special Considerations
Special considerations like particular landing pages that are key to the user journey of the site.
🧭 Areas of Concern
Specific areas of concern in executive summary format
⏱ Short Term Solutions
These are action items which can generally be completed in a matter of days after testing on a staging site and can provide positive results.
⏰ High Priority
1. Issue 1 with recommended solution A, B, C
✅ Advantages
- Reduces API calls
❌ Disadvantages
- Have to remember it is configured there (document in changelog) and working
2. Issue 2
⏳ Low Priority
1. Clean database tables: X, Y and Z
✅ Advantages
- Reduces database backup and restore times
- Makes database queries faster and uncached responses faster
❌ Disadvantages
- Can be time-consuming and wrong data can be deleted
🔔 Exception(s)
- Test thoroughly on a staging website
🗓 Long Term Solutions
These are action items which can take weeks or months to test thoroughly but they should be done if there is enough time and budget.
⏰ High Priority
1. Remove X and replace with Y
✅ Advantages
- Removes bloat from the website and reduces TTFB
❌ Disadvantages
- Can be time-consuming
🔔 Exception(s)
- Test thoroughly on a staging website
⏳ Low Priority
1. Separate the environments
✅ Advantages
- Avoids a lot of native performance issues
❌ Disadvantages
- Generally requires SSO to make the UX smooth
- Can be time-consuming and expensive
🔔 Exception(s)
- Can cause unexpected behavior on the site
🔍 Future Investigation
Section for areas that deserve a special audit devoted especially to them
🗂️ Overview
Scores for each key page type
- home page
- post
- product page
🚦Traffic Sources
Main traffic sources mentioned by client and relevant concerns about performance
Main locations
Webinars?
Email marketing campaign
🧰 Recommended Tools
Recommended tools for ongoing performance monitoring, speed improvement etc
✨ Dynamic Requests
Requests which can cause resource issues or delay visual rendering.
🗣️ Head Tags
Head tag analysis
🖥️ Hosting and Infrastructure
This section covers the suitability of your DNS, hosting and infrastructure.
🗄️ Hosting
Evaluation of hosting environment and recommendations of any changes.
🌐 Infrastructure
Feedback on
- CDN and CDN-like services
- Reverse Proxy
- Server structure feedback
🔌 Plugins
Plugins causing issues with evidence where possible
Suggested solutions
Recommended alternatives
🎨 Design Layout
Design feedback and recommendations performance where relevant
Explanation of why the element is slow and how it can be improved
Element on this <page-url> is taking Y time to load and delaying the page load time or key performance metric
🖌️ Theme
Theme recommendations and feedback
🔡 Fonts
Font recommendations and feedback
🧱 Design Elements
Design elements that may be slowing down the site with recommended solutions.
📑 Menu
Menu analysis.
🛍️ Assets
Especially heavy assets like images, media, JavaScript and CSS.
🥇 Assets Prioritization
Assets to prioritize
🖼️ Images and Media
Images and media like videos recommendations and feedback
↪️ External Services
External Service 1
Problems and evidence
Suggested solutions
📐 JavaScript Load
JavaScript files identified as heavy, what’s responsible for loading it and recommended solutions
✂ Simulation Tests
This section is for the exploratory audit version (not included in the basic audit).
This portion of the audit lets us simulate code changes to see what kind of performance metrics will be possible if you remove or change the components we identified as heavy.
📈 <site name> – Summary Tables of Results
Page type 1 table summary of core web vitals and key performance metrics with percentage change
Page type 2 table summary of core web vitals and key performance metrics with percentage change