How To Fix A Slow Website: 4 Web Performance Tips

August 28, 2025

Bar and line chart titled "Largest Contentful Paint vs Bounce Rate" showing page views by LCP time in bars and bounce rate percentage in a line; green bars (0–2.5s) represent good LCP with high page views and low bounce rate, orange bars (2.5–4s) show moderate LCP, and red bars (4s+) indicate poor LCP with low page views and high bounce rate.

Nobody I know purposely designs a slow website. I have never found a person yet who said, “I like your website, but I wish it was just a little slower.”Poor website speed can be a major roadblock to success. It impacts everything from the end user experience to search engine rankings. It definitely has financial costs. This is now pretty much common knowledge, yet it’s still easy to find slow websites everywhere.In this blog, I want to guide you through practical steps to diagnose and fix my own slow website. I will show you how I used insights from DebugBear to find and solve the performance issues fast with just a few tweaks and very few changes to the actual site itself.

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While this might seem relatively introductory, this is a pretty thorough look at some of the most obvious reasons why site performance might be poor. Before we jump into complicated, convoluted potential solutions, it might be worth checking off the suggestions in this list.