What you are seeing
Pages load slowly and fail Core Web Vitals.
Slow pages hurt user experience, conversion and the crawl efficiency engines and AI bots rely on.
Severity & business impact
High severity
A slow site depresses rankings and conversion together, as users abandon before pages load and revenue leaks at every step.
Symptoms
- Poor Core Web Vitals
- High bounce on slow pages
- Render delays
Likely causes
- Heavy assets
- Render-blocking scripts
- Unoptimised images
- Slow server
Recommended first actions
- Measure Core Web Vitals in PageSpeed Insights and the field data report
- Optimise the largest images, render-blocking scripts and server response time
- Re-test after each fix to confirm the vitals move into the good range
Recommended response
Recommended next steps
Where this fits - and what's next
The SearchScore path from a problem you feel to visibility you can measure.