Slow WordPress Site Specialist · Melbourne
WordPress site loading slowly? We pull mobile Core Web Vitals into the green.
Heavy themes, plugin bloat, render-blocking JS, oversized images, slow hosting, missing caching. We diagnose what’s actually slow on your site — not what a generic audit guesses — and fix it without a rebuild.
✓ Real-user measurements, not just Lighthouse
✓ Fixed-price — speed work has a defined scope
✓ No rebuild required — we work with your existing theme
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What slow WordPress site work covers
The four bottlenecks that wreck mobile speed.
Images & media
Compression, modern formats (AVIF/WebP), responsive srcset, lazy-loading, CDN routing.
Theme & CSS bloat
Unused CSS purge, critical-path inlining, render-blocking removal, layout-shift fixes.
Plugin audit
Identify the 2-3 plugins actually slowing the site. Replace, defer, or remove.
Hosting & caching
Real server config check, full-page cache, object cache, opcode cache. Not just plugins.
Pricing
Clear prices, before you enquire.
From a quick fix to a full platform build — no urgency loading, no after-hours multiplier, no weekend rate. You always get a fixed-scope quote in writing before any work starts.
Fix something
Pay for the hours it takes
One-off jobs, quoted up front and finished fast.
Website fix — small jobs
from $120
Fix block — 4 hours, use any time
$480
Hacked site recovery — 5 hours
$600
Emergencies, evenings and weekends cost the same. We don’t charge more because you need it sooner.
Build something
Fixed-scope projects
Starting prices. Scope is agreed and quoted in writing first.
Website refresh
from $4,800
Business website build
from $8,400
eCommerce store
from $12,000
Custom system or platform
from $24,000
Client portals, job management, booking and quoting systems all sit in the custom platform tier.
Keep it moving
Monthly hours on retainer
Same rate, booked ahead. Month-to-month, no lock-in.
Growth Support (20 hrs/mo)
$2,400/mo
Technical Partner (40 hrs/mo)
$4,800/mo
Fractional CTO (80 hrs/mo)
$9,600/mo
Same team, same standard of work, whether you buy a project or a month of retainer.
All prices ex GST. Not sure which one you need? Tell us what’s going on — we’ll say plainly which it is, or that you don’t need us.
Four ways to start
Most clients don’t start with a full rebuild.
Pick the size of job that matches where you actually are.
Fix something today, run a focused improvement sprint, scope a proper project, or move onto monthly support — whichever matches the problem you actually have.
Fix a website issue
Fixed price
Something on your site is broken, slow, or behaving badly. We diagnose it, give you a fixed-price quote, then fix and test it.
→ WordPress, plugin or theme issues
→ Forms, WooCommerce, checkout fixes
→ Speed, security, hacked-site cleanup
Most popular first project
Improve an existing website
From $1,500 · 1–2 weeks
Your site works, but it’s slow, dated, or not converting. A 1–2 week sprint to fix the highest-impact issues and map what’s next.
→ Speed, technical SEO, security cleanup
→ Forms, conversion, mobile UX fixes
→ Practical roadmap for what to do next
Build a new website, store, or system
From $3,500
Rebuild, eCommerce, custom WordPress, CRM workflows, booking systems, client portals. Scoped properly before we start.
→ Websites & WordPress rebuilds
→ WooCommerce, Shopify, eCommerce migrations
→ CRM, booking systems, custom web apps
Get monthly support
From $2,400/month
A development retainer, not a maintenance plan — real engineering hours every month: updates, security, improvements, and a real human to call.
→ Growth Support ($2,400/mo · 20 hrs)
→ Technical Partner ($4,800/mo · 40 hrs)
→ Fractional CTO (from $9,600/mo · 80 hrs)
Ready to get your website doing real work?
Tell us what’s broken, what you want to improve, or what you want to build. We reply within one business day with a clear next step — a fix quote, a sprint quote, a project quote, or a “we’re not the right fit” answer.
Australian-based team
Direct work — no account managers
Fixed-price quotes in writing
Reply within 1 business day
Other rescue scenarios we handle
Three more situations we fix on fixed-price scope
Emergency WordPress & WooCommerce repair
Hacked, white-screened, or checkout broken? Reply within 1 business day, fixed-price quote, usually same day on urgent jobs.
WordPress malware removal Melbourne
Forensic scan, targeted cleanup, hardening, written recovery report. Fixed price — no hourly meter.
Fix a broken WooCommerce checkout
Gateway failures, plugin conflicts, lost orders, tax/shipping bugs — diagnosed and fixed on a fixed-price brief.
Slow WordPress site developer Melbourne — common questions
What we hear from owners of slow WordPress sites
My WordPress site is slow — how do I know if it is fixable without a rebuild?
90% of slow WordPress sites are fixable without a rebuild. The other 10% are heavy page-builder themes (Divi, Elementor with 30+ plugins, custom themes with no asset pipeline) where the foundational architecture caps performance regardless of what you do. We do a 30-minute mobile Core Web Vitals diagnostic up front to tell you which bucket you are in — honest answer either way.
How much can you improve my WordPress mobile speed?
Realistic lift: from PageSpeed mobile scores in the 20-40 range up to 80-95 within 1-2 weeks. The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) often drops from 5-8 seconds to under 2.5 seconds. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) drops from 0.3-0.5 to under 0.1. These are real measured outcomes from recent jobs — we share before/after screenshots in the final report.
What is actually slowing my WordPress site down?
In order of frequency: (1) uncompressed hero images served at desktop sizes on mobile, (2) plugin bloat — usually 3-5 plugins doing duplicate work, (3) no caching configured properly (or a misconfigured cache), (4) render-blocking JavaScript from page-builder themes, (5) under-resourced hosting (shared hosting under traffic load). We measure all five in the diagnostic and rank by impact.
Do I need to switch hosts to make WordPress faster?
Sometimes, not always. If you are on cheap shared hosting (under $10/month) and your traffic has grown, yes — the host itself is the bottleneck. But many “slow site” reports turn out to be image/plugin/cache issues that we fix without changing host. We tell you honestly. If a host change is needed, we recommend SiteGround GrowBig or Cloudways DigitalOcean for Australian sites.
Can ongoing WordPress maintenance keep my site fast?
Yes — that is exactly what our Care Plans include. Monthly Core Web Vitals checks, plugin update testing before push, image optimisation on new uploads, cache invalidation. Sites stay in the green long-term rather than drifting back to slow as content grows. Without monthly checks, most sites regress within 4-6 months of a speed fix.