Title: Site Performance Problems
Last modified: August 6, 2020

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# Site Performance Problems

 *  Resolved [mc1969](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc1969/)
 * (@mc1969)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-performance-problems/)
 * I am building a WooCommerce site at [https://www.thespectrummarketplace.com.au/](https://www.thespectrummarketplace.com.au/)
   and am using the LiteSpeed caching plugin on the recommendation of my hosting
   company.
 * After tweaking various plugin settings the site scores quite well on tools such
   as Pingdom and GTMetrix in areas such as page speed, page size and number of 
   requests. It also has a good score at ByteCheck for “Time To First Byte”.
 * However it scores poorly (20) on Google Lighthouse in the “Performance” section
   of the report, with the problems seeming to be connected to things such as Render-
   Blocking Resources and an excessive number of DOM elements (3800+)
 * From what I have outlined, can anyone advise what areas of the plugin settings
   might affect this result, and what the appropriate defaults might be?
 * I have not used Litespeed before and my knowledge of caching plugins is limited.
 * I would be grateful for any assistance or advice.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsite-performance-problems%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-performance-problems/#post-13218516)
 * Hi,
 * For render blocking , you can try load async CSS and defer JS , for excessive
   DOM , sadly nothing we can do about it
 * Best regards,

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