Health Blog Site Professional Optimization
TheEMTSpot publishes practical heart-health guidance. Readers were landing on mobile and waiting. We stepped in with a targeted WordPress speed optimization to make articles open quickly and feel responsive.
Site’s Condition Before Optimization
A quick pass through PageSpeed Insights/Lighthouse and GTmetrix showed a clear gap: desktop was fine, mobile wasn’t. As part of our Google PageSpeed optimization process, we reviewed Core Web Vitals to confirm the phone experience needed attention.
What we touched
- Media pipeline: moved images to modern formats and responsive markup, then deferred off-screen media so readers see the first screen sooner.
- Styles & scripts: inlined a tiny critical CSS slice, queued the rest, trimmed unused rules, and held non-essential JavaScript until after initial render to ease main-thread pressure.
- Caching & delivery: set up a lean caching layer, tightened headers, and tuned delivery so repeat views feel instant.
Tooling used: a lightweight combo for image conversion, bloat control, and caching — configured specifically for a content site.
What changed
Mobile rose from 52 → 100, with LCP 9.5s → 1.8s, FCP 2.4s → 1.2s, Speed Index 5.0s → 2.0s.
Desktop climbed from 85 → 100, with LCP 2.2s → 0.6s, FCP 0.8s → 0.4s, Speed Index 1.9s → 0.8s.
Mobile
As we can see, the mobile and desktop versions’ performance has increased. Let’s see how much Core Web Vitals has improved:
| Core Web Vitals | Scores before WordPress Website Optimization | Scores after WordPress Website Optimization |
| Desktop Google Pagespeed | 85 | 100 |
| Mobile Google Pagespeed | 52 | 100 |
| Mobile LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) | 9.5 sec | 1.8 sec |
| Desktop LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) | 2.2 sec | 0.6 sec |
| Mobile FCP (First Contentful Paint) | 2.4 sec | 1.2 sec |
| Desktop FCP (First Contentful Paint) | 0.8 sec | 0.4 sec |
| Mobile Speed Index | 5 sec | 2 sec |
| Desktop Speed Index | 1.9 sec | 0.8 sec |
We also recommended a hosting plan with more CPU headroom to prevent bottlenecks as traffic grows. Net effect: faster first screens, steadier layouts, and taps that register right away—the kind of experience Google’s Core Web Vitals reward and that our mobile optimization for WordPress websites is designed to deliver.
