Reducing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in Google Pagespeed and Search Console

[creationgate]

Hello,

I am trying to help my client (https://www.1300rubbish.com.au/) reduce their LCP to get rid of the "Poor" rating in the console Core Web Vitals. I am using Wordpress with Avada theme and WP-rocket and the Hubspot plugin.

First off - the client has a lot of old unused forms set up in:

Within the Hubspot Plugin / Forms

(Would these impact the speed? - should we clean out any unused forms)

And also landing pages in the Hubspot site admin areas:

Marketing / Website / Landing pages

If I check out the site in Chrome tools / Network - these files are really affecting the load time a lot:

https://js.hscollectedforms.net/collectedforms.js
https://forms.hubspot.com/collected-forms/v1/config/json?portalId=209054&utk=e4d6ad6b841acfc031844d6...
https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?k=1&sd=360x640&cd=24-bit&cs=UTF-8&ln=en-au&bfp=3197403527&v=1.1&...
https://forms.hsforms.com/embed/v3/counters.gif?key=collected-forms-embed-js-form-bind&count=3

We are only using Hubspot for reporting and to collect form submissions I think (no chat etc), so are any of these files able to be defered in WP-rocket without breaking the connection. Or is these any other way I can try and improve the speed situation. We are so close so even something small might be enough to get us across the line.

Thanks very much for your help in advance. Tim

[Ben_M · Accepted solution]

I ran a lighthouse report on your site and your FCP is showing good for me at 2.3s which is pretty good.  The only slow downs being caught in my report are from the Avada theme with unused CSS/JS.  Also there is a security vulnerability from Avada using an outdated version of Jquery.  I would be most concerned with the SEO score of 79.  The issues are minor, but I think you could get that score up to 90+ with some fixes.

Lighthouse PDF 

Lighthouse JSON 

[natsumimori]

Hi @creationgate ,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community.

I wanted to tag in some top contributors here: @Ben_M and @Alex_ , would you mind sharing your advice for @creationgate ?