Mobile LCP Score Issue Despite Full Optimization

[Bob1]

Hello,

I’m encountering an issue with my website’s speed score. I’ve optimized everything possible — all images are in WebP format, I’m using very few plugins, and LiteSpeed Cache is configured exactly as recommended on your website.

Despite all this, I’m still getting an extremely low Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score on mobile devices only. All the other metrics are excellent, but the poor LCP score is dragging the overall average down significantly, which is having a serious impact on my SEO.

Is there anything that can be done to improve this mobile LCP issue?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[kseniia]

Hi,

Please note that HivePress does not affect the loading speed of your site in any way. It all depends on the hosting provider and the optimization of your site. Also, you can check this topic: Site loading speed too low. Any tips or tricks to improve loading speed?

Hope this helps

[Bob1]

Hi,

I don’t think this is related to my hosting, since I don’t have issues with other sites. I ran the following test: I rebuilt a WordPress site from scratch with only the Google Site Kit plugin installed to check the speed score. At the very beginning, the score was good (see image 1). Then, I installed only the HivePress plugin, and the score already dropped to “needs improvement” (see image 2). Finally, I activated the Hive Listing theme and imported the demo, and the score went down to “poor” (see image 3).

This only affects the mobile score, and especially the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). After looking into it further with PageSpeed Insights, it seems this is mostly related to the header image.

[kseniia]

Please check out these topics:

Mobile Optimization - Tips and tricks for mobile UI

Nowadays, according to stats about 70-80 % of your traffic comes from mobile. So yes, mobile should be your first priority. Check what performance testing tools are saying (gt metrix, pingdom, lighthouse…) Normally they provide results both for desktop and mobile an give some guidelines to optimize and improve your results. Mobile results are always worse : First you have a smaller processor running. Next your connection is not quite often that good. You can simulate a slow connection via c…

Site loading speed too low. Any tips or tricks to improve loading speed?

Hi there - I am attempting to increase site speed. I have followed all the steps from the blog post linked below. I also have used WP Optimize as well. Despite these steps, the time it takes for mobile to load is still poor at ~9.1s and the total blocking time is 14,260 ms. Please advise what I can do to improve my site speed! Blog post I’m referencing: How to Speed up a Directory or Marketplace Website Built with HivePress | HivePress Blog

Hope this will be useful