Yakka Finance
How We Helped Yakka Finance Improve Site Speed and Boost Advertising Performance
89% Mobile LCP / 85% Desktop LCP
Ad-driven business financing site bottlenecked by theme bloat, plugin weight, and unoptimized media. Mobile LCP collapsed from 25.9s to 2.9s; desktop LCP from 4.0s to 0.6s.
Outcomes
89%
Mobile LCP Reduction
Mobile LCP dropped from 25.9s to 2.9s.
85%
Desktop LCP Reduction
Desktop LCP dropped from 4.0s to 0.6s.
79%
Mobile TBT Reduction
Mobile TBT reduced from 380ms to 80ms.
Before vs After
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop LCP | 4.0s | 0.6s |
| Desktop CLS | 0.27 | 0.017 |
| Mobile LCP | 25.9s | 2.9s |
| Mobile TBT | 380ms | 80ms |
| Mobile SI | 12.2s | 2.5s |
Project Overview
Yakka Finance asked us to help improve the speed and responsiveness of their WordPress site. Their advertising campaigns depended on a fast-loading website, but the existing setup had slow loading times caused by theme issues, plugin weight, third-party scripts, image bloat, and general inefficiencies.
Our Approach
Full Performance Audit — audited theme, plugins, scripts, images, and database.
Theme Optimization — cleaned up theme code for better rendering performance.
Plugin Optimization — reduced plugin overhead and optimized load order.
Image & Media Optimization — compressed and converted images across all pages.
Database Cleanup — optimized database queries and cleaned up bloat.
Key Takeaways
- → Ad-driven sites benefit enormously from speed improvements.
- → WordPress theme optimization often unlocks the biggest performance gains.
- → Database cleanup is essential for sites with large amounts of content.
“Couldn't be any happier with the work done by Matt and the PageSpeed Matters team, they were communicative, open, honest.”
Grace Smallman
Yakka Finance
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