Find the Real WordPress Performance Bottlenecks Before Changing the Platform
A performance audit determines why WordPress is slow, unstable, or expensive before implementation begins. I measure representative user journeys and trace constraints across the browser, CDN, PHP, database, object cache, background queues, integrations, hosting, and application code.
What Is Included
Critical Journey Baseline
Measure public pages, search, login, publishing, APIs, forms, checkout, accounts, and scheduled processing.
Core Web Vitals
Review field and lab signals, rendering, images, fonts, CSS, JavaScript, third parties, caching, and CDN behavior.
PHP Runtime
Profile hooks, templates, plugins, remote calls, memory, workers, cron, REST, admin-ajax, and slow paths.
Database and Cache
Analyze queries, indexes, autoloaded options, metadata, transients, cache hits, invalidation, and contention.
Queues and Checkout
Inspect Action Scheduler, retries, concurrency, webhooks, payments, inventory latency, and synchronous dependencies.
Capacity and Observability
Assess infrastructure limits, traffic shape, saturation, logs, metrics, alerts, deployment markers, and SLO evidence.
How We Work Together
- Clarify the business outcome, users, evidence, constraints, risks, and acceptance criteria.
- Define the architecture, scope, responsibilities, milestones, validation, and release approach.
- Complete the agreed assessment or implementation in reviewable stages.
- Validate outcomes, document ownership, and define the next operational priority.
Related WordPress Services
This work may connect with Enterprise WordPress consulting, a technical architecture and reliability audit, or an ongoing engineering partnership.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from PageSpeed testing?
PageSpeed is one frontend input. The audit also examines PHP, databases, caching, queues, integrations, checkout, administration, and infrastructure.
Do you make changes during the audit?
The primary deliverable is diagnosis and a prioritized plan. Implementation is scoped separately to preserve a reliable baseline.
Can you audit WooCommerce?
Yes. Product queries, sessions, checkout, payment latency, HPOS, Action Scheduler, inventory, and webhooks can be included.
Do you need production access?
Production telemetry is useful, but access is minimized and agreed. Code, staging, metrics, logs, and monitoring may also be used.
What do I receive?
A business summary, technical evidence, prioritized findings, recommended changes, measurable criteria, and an implementation roadmap.
Which audit should I choose?
Choose this when performance is primary. Choose the architecture audit for broad code, integration, identity, deployment, and recovery concerns.