WordPress Performance Monitoring: A Complete Guide (opens in new tab)

WordPress powers a large share of the sites agencies maintain, yet performance work on WordPress rarely looks like performance work on a static marketing site or a headless stack. The CMS is not slow by default; the combination of themes, plugins, hosting, and caching often is. And because every client stack is different, a one-off PageSpeed Insights run after a deploy tells you almost nothing about whether Tuesday’s plugin update quietly pushed LCP over budget on the homepage. This guide is ...