The VeloPress Blog
Deep technical guides on WordPress performance, Core Web Vitals, and making the web faster.
WooCommerce Speed Checklist: 30 Fixes to Make Your Store Faster
Key Takeaways 30 specific, actionable speed fixes organised into 3 tiers: Quick Wins (under 30 minutes each), Medium Effort (1–4 hours), and Advanced (require developer skills or hosting changes) Quick…
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WooCommerce Core Web Vitals: Fix LCP, CLS, and INP for Ecommerce
Key Takeaways WooCommerce product pages have unique Core Web Vitals challenges — dynamic content, heavy JavaScript, and image galleries create…
WooCommerce Plugin Performance: Audit and Optimise Your Plugin Stack
Key Takeaways The average WooCommerce store runs 30–50 plugins — each one adds PHP execution time, database queries, and JavaScript…
WooCommerce Hosting: Best Hosting for Fast WooCommerce Stores
Key Takeaways PHP workers are the most critical hosting resource for WooCommerce — each concurrent checkout, AJAX request, or admin…
WooCommerce Image Optimisation: The Complete Guide
Key Takeaways Images account for 60–80% of total page weight on WooCommerce product and category pages — optimising them is…
WooCommerce AJAX Optimisation: Fix admin-ajax.php Bottlenecks
Key Takeaways admin-ajax.php is WooCommerce’s biggest hidden bottleneck — every AJAX call loads the entire WordPress stack, taking 300–800ms even…
WooCommerce Product Page Speed: Fix Slow Product Pages
Key Takeaways Product pages are your highest-value pages — a 1-second delay reduces conversions by 7% according to Google’s retail…
Speed Up WooCommerce Checkout: Reduce Cart Abandonment
Key Takeaways 70% of WooCommerce carts are abandoned — slow checkout is the #2 reason after unexpected costs Cart fragments…
WooCommerce Speed Optimisation: The Complete Guide (2026)
Key Takeaways WooCommerce sites are 2–3× harder to optimise than standard WordPress because of dynamic content, database complexity, and uncacheable…
Core Web Vitals Monitoring: How to Track and Prevent Regressions
Key Takeaways Core Web Vitals change constantly — plugin updates, new content, third-party scripts, and hosting changes can cause regressions…