Why this matters

Everything on your page has to download before AI can read it. A page full of giant uncompressed photos can take 10+ seconds on a phone — AI's crawler often moves on before it's done, which means it never sees your content at all. Speed isn't vanity; it's whether you get read.

Do it yourself: the two big wins

On every platform, slow pages are almost always caused by the same two things. Fix these first — they need no technical skill.

1. Shrink your images

  1. Find your biggest images

    These are usually homepage banners, slideshows, and photo galleries.

  2. Compress them

    Go to tinypng.com, drag in each image, and download the smaller version. It cuts file sizes by 60–80% with no visible difference.

  3. Re-upload

    Replace the originals on your site with the compressed versions: Wix (click image → Replace), Squarespace (click image → Replace), WordPress (Media → Add New, then swap it in), Shopify (Content → Files → upload, then swap it in).

2. Remove apps and widgets you don't use

  1. Wix: In the editor, check App Market → Manage Apps and remove anything you don't actively use.
  2. Squarespace: Check Settings → Advanced → Code Injection and any third-party extensions — remove what you don't need.
  3. WordPress: Go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and deactivate then delete anything inactive or unused.
  4. Shopify: Go to Apps and delete any app you no longer use — leftover apps keep loading code on every page.
Then re-scan

Images and unused apps fix the large majority of slow small-business sites. Run a new CrawlReady scan after — if the flag clears, you're done.

Still slow? Hand this to your web person

If the report still flags speed after the two fixes above, the cause is deeper (server response time, render-blocking code, no caching). Send your web person this message:

Copy and send

"Hi — I had our website checked, and it found our page still loads too slowly even after I compressed the images and removed unused apps/plugins.

Could you look into the deeper causes? The usual suspects: slow server response time (TTFB), render-blocking scripts and stylesheets, and missing page caching. If we're on cheap shared hosting, I'd also like your opinion on whether upgrading the hosting plan would help.

I'll re-run the scan after to confirm it's fixed. Thanks!"

After the fix

Run a new CrawlReady scan. The performance check times your page fresh each time — once it loads fast, the flag clears.