Practical guides on website speed, SEO scores, Core Web Vitals and free audits. Written for UK small business owners by web designer John Hitchens.
The 15 most common reasons WordPress sites load slowly in 2026, plus the exact fix for each. Cheap hosting, unoptimised images, plugin bloat, missing caching and more.
What a free website audit actually checks, how to run one in 8 seconds, what the five scores mean, and what to do next whether your score comes back at 90 or 30.
How SEO scores actually work, what counts as good, and how to improve yours from 40 to 80+ in a focused afternoon of on-page fixes.
Step by step fixes for when PageSpeed Insights shows a failing Core Web Vitals assessment on WordPress, Shopify or a custom site.