Custom WordPress Websites That Score High on Google PageSpeed
At Livan Digital Solutions we don’t just build websites, we engineer them to perform, engage and rank. On website speed, accessibility and SEO we would rather show the numbers than talk about them.
Scoring 97+ on Google PageSpeed Insights
We ran our own site through Google PageSpeed Insights, the industry benchmark for page performance. The results:
- Performance: 97
- Accessibility: 94
- Best practices: 100
- SEO: 100
Those four numbers are not luck and they are not a caching plugin. They come from four deliberate decisions we make on every build.
1. No page builder, anywhere
This is the single biggest factor. Elementor, Divi and WPBakery are convenient in the editor and expensive in the browser: each one loads its own CSS and JavaScript framework on every page of the site, whether that page uses their features or not. A simple contact page ends up carrying the weight of a page builder capable of animation, sliders and pop-ups it never uses.
We hand-build the theme on Advanced Custom Fields. Every section is its own template, and a page loads the markup for the sections it actually contains. Nothing else ships. We wrote about the trade-offs in why we don’t use page builders.
2. Lean markup and almost no JavaScript
Our front end is vanilla JavaScript, with no jQuery on the vast majority of pages. That matters more than it sounds: JavaScript is the most expensive thing a page can carry, because the browser has to download it, parse it, compile it and run it before the page becomes interactive, and on a mid-range Android phone that work costs several times what it costs on a laptop.
The HTML underneath is semantic — real headings, real buttons, real landmarks — which is also why the accessibility score sits at 94 rather than in the sixties, where template-driven sites usually land.
3. Images on a budget
Images are usually the largest thing on a page and the easiest to get wrong. Ours are converted to WebP, served with responsive srcset so a phone downloads a phone-sized file rather than a 2000px original, and lazy-loaded below the fold.
The exception is deliberate: the single image that forms the largest element on the first screen is loaded eagerly and preloaded in the page head. An image stored in a custom field is invisible to the browser’s preload scanner, so without that hint the browser finds it late and your Largest Contentful Paint suffers for it. That one detail is worth several points on its own.
4. Caching and build discipline
CSS and JavaScript are compiled, minified and fingerprinted at build time, so browsers cache them hard and still get the new version the moment we ship one. Fonts are self-hosted as subsetted WOFF2 files rather than fetched from a third-party domain. Full-page caching means an anonymous visitor is served a pre-built HTML file straight from the web server, without WordPress or PHP running at all.
What a 97 is actually worth to your business
Speed scores are only interesting because of what sits behind them:
- Faster load times mean fewer people leave before the page appears. Most abandonment happens in the first few seconds, before a visitor has read a word of your copy.
- Better accessibility means a wider audience, and fewer legal and procurement problems. It is also the right thing to do.
- Best practice compliance means secure, current code that will not need rescuing in two years.
- Strong technical SEO removes every technical excuse for not ranking, and leaves your content free to do its job.
What it costs and how long it takes
A typical marketing site goes live 2-4 weeks after sign-off. A WooCommerce store, or a build with custom functionality and integrations, usually runs 6-8 weeks. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price after the audit, plus weekly demos so you can see progress rather than take our word for it.
If you would rather spread the cost, the same build starts at £179 per month on our pay monthly website plans. Once you are live, Livan Care keeps it updated, backed up and monitored from £49 per month.
Ready to grow online?
Whether you need a high-converting landing page, a business site or an eCommerce platform, we can build you something that ranks, loads fast and works everywhere. Explore our WordPress development services, or send us your URL and we will run the same report against your site for free.