Your website takes too long to load on a phone
On fast office Wi-Fi a site can feel fine. On a phone with one bar of signal, the same site can take a long time to show anything. Most of that time is not the content. It is what was added to it.
The usual causes
- Too many scripts
- Chat widgets, tracking tags, social feeds and pop-ups each load their own code. Each one makes the phone wait.
- Photos larger than the screen
- A photo straight from a camera can be many times larger than the phone that shows it. Resized photos look the same and load much faster.
- A heavy page builder
- Some builders send a lot of code with every page, even a simple one. You cannot always remove it from inside the builder.
- Measure it yourself
- Google’s PageSpeed Insights tests your page on a slow phone for free. The home page of this site links to it, run against this site, so you can compare.
What the free check looks for
The free check reads your front page in a few seconds. These are the results that matter most here.
- The number of separate scripts the front page loads before it settles.
- Images with no alt text. Large unlabelled images are often the heaviest part of a page.
- No viewport tag, which makes a phone draw a full desktop page and shrink it.
Run the free check. The full review goes through every page for $9.
What you get, and what it costs
- You pay what you think the site is worth, from $100. It is the same site at every price.
- Every account, from the domain to the hosting, is in your name.
- It loads fast, works on every phone, and works with a screen reader and a keyboard.
- No trackers, and nothing about your customers is sold.
- If you want me to keep it safe and current, the care plan is $9 a month. It is optional.
Questions
- Does speed change where I show up on Google?
- Google’s page experience guidance includes Core Web Vitals, which measure how fast a page shows and how steady it is. Speed is one signal among many.
- Can my current site be made faster?
- Often, yes. The full review says what is slowing each page and how to fix it, so you can decide before you change anything.
- Why are your sites fast?
- Every page is built ahead of time and served from close to the visitor, with no tracking scripts. There is less to load.
See what your site needs
Start with the free check of the site you have. If you have no site yet, tell me about your business and I will reply.