When the baseline isn't enough
Every WebOps hosting plan ships with a conservative LiteSpeed + QUIC.cloud baseline that's universally safe for any WordPress site. Speed Optimization adds per-site tuning on top, for sites where the baseline leaves real Lighthouse points on the table.
- Monthly 3-run PSI median
- Post-update regression check
- Per-cycle configuration tweaks
- Plain-language monthly report
Baseline included with hosting documented here.
A measured tuning cycle, every month
The same shape of work we already do for security on top of the baseline. Quiet, recurring, reported in plain language.
Monthly PSI median
A 3-run PageSpeed Insights median on your homepage, captured the same day every month. Trend over time, not a single snapshot you can't trust.
Post-update regression check
After every plugin or theme update we run the speed harness again. If something dropped, we know about it before your visitors do.
Light tweaks per cycle
Per-cycle adjustments to the LiteSpeed configuration, image delivery, defer rules, and cache TTLs based on what the month's measurement actually shows.
Initial audit and baseline
Onboarding starts with a per-page audit, a before/after PSI report, and a 30-day re-check to confirm the tuning held.
Plain-language report
Every cycle ends with a short written report. What we measured, what we changed, what to expect next month. No screenshots-of-Lighthouse dumps.
Continuous monitoring
Between cycles, synthetic monitoring catches large speed regressions and surfaces them as a ticket instead of waiting for the monthly check.
Why this work has to be per-site
Earlier this year, one client on our fleet kept reporting that editing posts in their page builder would intermittently break the site layout. We chased the obvious causes for weeks. The real culprit turned out to be a LiteSpeed CSS optimization setting that ships ON by default and conflicts with most page builders. Flipping it off solved the recurring incident.
We then audited the same setting across all 122 WordPress installs on the fleet. Two more sites had the same latent risk, even though those owners hadn't reported a problem yet.
The same week, we tested a different LiteSpeed flag on two sites belonging to the same client. On the first site, here's what the 3-run median picked up:
(38 → 97)
to actual zero
same flag, second site
The second site ran a hero slider on the homepage. Same hosting stack, same setting, opposite outcomes. That's why the conservative baseline stays conservative for everyone, and why the aggressive optimizations live in a paid service that earns the right to make per-site changes by measuring before and after.
What's not in the service
To keep the recurring cost honest, larger one-off work lives outside the monthly subscription. We'll quote it separately as a project.
Per-URL critical CSS tuning
Generating and stabilizing per-page Critical CSS or Used CSS across a deep site is a multi-day project, not a monthly tweak. We'll quote it as scope.
Custom plugin or theme snippets
Hand-written PHP or JavaScript to defer specific scripts, conditionally load assets, or rework a render path is project work. Bill at our dev rate.
Heavy front-end refactors
If the homepage is genuinely too heavy at the source (a hero slider with eight uncompressed full-bleed images, a builder template stacked with widgets), the fix is design, not configuration. We can help, scoped as a build.
Third-party script renegotiation
Marketing pixels, chat widgets, and ad tags that drag scores down often need an honest conversation with the team that put them there. We can lead it, scoped separately.
Attach Speed Optimization to your hosting
A single managed tier, recurring monthly. We add it to your site after a quick scoping call.
- Initial audit and before/after report
- Monthly 3-run PSI median
- Post-update regression check
- Per-cycle configuration tweaks
- Plain-language monthly report
- No setup fee, cancel anytime
Already a WebOps client? Talk to us about adding it. Not hosted with us yet? A one-time tune-up audit on your current host runs $200–$300; ask us about scope.
Frequently asked questions
Find out where your site's real bottlenecks are
The free Website Health Report runs the same speed harness we use on day one of every service engagement. It's the cheapest way to find out whether your site has a 30-point Lighthouse gain hiding behind two settings nobody has tested in two years.
