Service · Core Web Vitals Rescue
For a site that’s slow but staying
Not a redesign. A technical audit of exactly why your site is slow on a phone, followed by the actual fixes — images, fonts, scripts, caching — with a before-and-after report so you can see precisely what changed.
What Core Web Vitals rescue is
Core Web Vitals rescue is a one-time, fixed-price technical performance service from NS Web Studio, costing €600. It covers a full audit of image weight, font loading, render-blocking scripts and styles, caching configuration and database bloat, followed by the actual fixes being implemented — not just a list of what’s wrong — and a before-and-after PageSpeed report on both mobile and desktop. It’s for an existing site you want to keep, not replace.
Fit check
This is worth it if…
This sounds like your situation
- Your site takes several seconds to load on a phone and you suspect people are leaving before it finishes
- You like the site as it is and don’t want a redesign — you want it fast, not different
- You’ve never had a proper technical performance pass, or it’s been years since the last one
- You want proof, not a promise — real before-and-after numbers you can check yourself
Skip it, or do something else first, if…
- Your site already scores above roughly 85 on mobile. Spend the €600 on content instead — the return will be better
- You actually want a redesign, not just speed — a fast ugly site and a fast good-looking one cost about the same effort here, so talk to me about a full package instead
- The site is on very cheap or shared hosting with hard resource limits — some of the ceiling is the host, not the code, and I’ll tell you honestly if that’s the real bottleneck
The honest limit of what this can promise. I won’t tell you it’ll hit 100. The score depends on your starting point, your theme, and any third-party plugins you rely on that I don’t control — a booking widget or a chat tool can undo real work on its own. What I will commit to is a specific, written before-and-after comparison, so you see exactly what moved and by how much.
The full list
Everything in the €600
What you get
Audit
- Image weight checked page by page — format, sizing, lazy-loading
- Font loading: whether fonts are self-hosted, preloaded, and causing layout shift
- Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript identified specifically, not just flagged generically
- Caching and server response checked for obvious gaps
- Database bloat from years of revisions, transients and abandoned plugin data
The actual fixes
- Images converted to WebP and correctly sized
- Fonts self-hosted and preloaded where they aren’t already
- Unnecessary scripts removed, deferred or delayed
- Caching configured properly for your specific hosting setup
- Database cleaned of what’s safe to remove
Verification
- Before-and-after PageSpeed Insights reports, mobile and desktop
- A written list of exactly what changed and why
- One round of re-testing if something needs adjusting after launch
Not included — so nobody is surprised
- Redesign or new pages. This improves what exists; it doesn’t change how it looks
- Hosting migration. If your host is the actual bottleneck, I’ll say so and quote a migration separately
- Fixing damage from third-party plugins you keep. I can work around a booking widget’s weight; I can’t remove the weight it inherently adds
- Ongoing monitoring. A one-time pass; watching it stay fast month to month is Care
- A specific promised score. The starting point and your own tools set a ceiling I don’t control
If the audit turns up something outside this scope — a genuinely undersized hosting plan, for instance — you’ll hear about it before I start fixing what I can, not buried in the final report.
What changes
Why this is a full pass, not a plugin install
Fixed, not just flagged
Plenty of tools will list what’s slow. This implements the fixes, so you’re not handed a to-do list you then have to pay someone else to action.
Written proof, not a verbal “it’s faster now”
Before-and-after reports mean you can check the claim yourself, on your own phone, rather than take a developer’s word for it.
Root cause, not a symptom patch
An unoptimised 4MB hero image and a genuinely under-resourced host produce the same symptom but need different fixes. The audit tells you which one you actually have.
How it runs
The four to six days, step by step
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Days 1–2
Audit
Full technical pass across images, fonts, scripts, caching and database. You get a written, prioritised list of exactly what’s slowing the site down, ranked by impact.
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Days 3–4
Fixes
The work itself, applied on a staging copy where possible so the live site isn’t disrupted mid-fix. Anything outside the agreed scope gets flagged, not silently done or silently skipped.
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Day 5
Verification
Before-and-after PageSpeed reports, mobile and desktop, checked on a real connection rather than assumed from the changes alone.
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Day 6
Handover
The full written report, the reports themselves, and one round of re-testing included if anything needs a second look after launch.
Pairs well with
What people usually add alongside this
Care plan
€190/moA fast site left unmaintained tends to slow back down as plugins update and content piles up. This keeps the gains from sliding.
Worth it if: you don’t want to pay for this again in eighteen months.
Technical SEO audit
€650Speed is one part of technical health. This covers crawlability, indexation and structure alongside it.
Worth it if: you want the fuller picture, not just the performance score.
Accessibility pass
€900Both are technical health checks. Often worth doing together since they touch some of the same code.
Worth it if: the site hasn’t had a WCAG check either.
Questions
What people ask about Core Web Vitals rescue
Will my site definitely hit 100?
I won’t promise a specific number, and I’d be cautious of anyone who does before even seeing your site. What I commit to is applying every fix that’s actually available given your platform, theme and hosting, and showing you the real before-and-after numbers so you can judge the result yourself rather than take my word for it.
What if the slow part is my hosting, not the site?
The audit checks server response time as part of the review, and if hosting is genuinely the ceiling, I’ll say so plainly rather than spend your €600 chasing gains the code alone can’t deliver. You’d then have the choice of a hosting upgrade or migration, quoted separately, before deciding whether to proceed.
Do you migrate my hosting for me?
Not as part of this service, but I can do it as a separate, quoted piece of work if the audit shows it’s genuinely needed. I’d rather tell you it’s required and quote it honestly than fold it in as a surprise cost partway through.
What if a third-party plugin, like a booking widget, is the real bottleneck?
This happens more often than you’d expect. I can defer its loading, load it only on the page that needs it, or reduce its impact where the plugin allows — but I can’t remove weight the plugin itself inherently carries. If a specific third-party tool turns out to be the main drag, I’ll show you exactly how much it costs in milliseconds so you can decide if it’s worth keeping.
How long do the improvements last? Do I need to redo this later?
The fixes themselves are permanent unless something is later undone by an update or a new plugin. What does drift over time is new content: unoptimised images added later, new plugins installed, database bloat building back up. The PageSpeed Insights tool is free to re-check any time; if scores have slipped significantly, that’s usually new additions rather than the original work failing.
Can this be done on a site you didn’t build?
Yes, this is one of the services that works well on any reasonably standard WordPress site, built by anyone. I’ll need admin access for the working period, and I’ll flag upfront if the platform itself has unusual constraints that limit what’s achievable before you commit to the price.
Find out what’s actually slowing you down
Send your site’s URL in the project brief. I’ll run a quick check before quoting, so the price reflects your real starting point, not a guess.
Start your project briefOr email me at info@nswebstudio.com