Website Speed Optimisation
Make your WordPress site load faster on mobile and pass Core Web Vitals. From R2 950, done in 3 to 5 days.
Rusted Web speed optimisation makes slow WordPress sites load faster, from R2 950 once-off, usually finished within 3 to 5 working days. Faster pages keep visitors on your site, help your Google rankings through Core Web Vitals and cost your customers less mobile data.
We measure your site before and after, then fix what is actually slowing it down: heavy images, too many scripts and fonts, missing caching, bloated page builders or slow hosting. You get a before-and-after report. If your host is the problem, moving to Rusted Web hosting is often the biggest single improvement.
Website Speed Optimisation questions
WordPress sites are usually slow because of large images, too many plugins, heavy page builders and slow or overloaded hosting. Missing page caching is another common cause. A speed optimisation finds which of these affect your site and fixes them in order of impact.
Rusted Web speed optimisation costs from R2 950 once-off for a typical WordPress site, and online stores or very large sites are quoted separately. The price includes a before-and-after report. If the main problem is your hosting, we will tell you upfront rather than charge for fixes that cannot help.
Yes, page speed is part of Google’s ranking signals through Core Web Vitals, which measure loading, responsiveness and visual stability. Speed alone will not put a weak page on top, but a slow site loses visitors before they read anything, which hurts enquiries and sales as much as rankings.
Your main content should appear within about 2.5 seconds on a mobile connection, which is Google’s target for a good Largest Contentful Paint. Server response should be under about 0.8 seconds. We test on mobile with a throttled connection, because that is how most South African visitors browse.
No, we work on a copy of your site first, test every page and only then apply the changes to your live site. A full backup is taken before we start. If something looks wrong after launch, we fix it straight away as part of the job.