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WooCommerce LCP: What I Measure Before Touching Plugins

Merchants often chase page-speed plugins first. On Woo stores I reverse that:

  1. Capture LCP element (usually hero/PDP image or font block)
  2. Check TTFB separately from frontend weight
  3. Inventory third-party scripts on product templates
  4. Only then tune cache / CDN

Checklist I keep public:
https://shopaiwp.com/guides/performance/wordpress-speed-optimization-checklist-2026/

Longer merchant guide:
https://shopaiwp.com/guides/performance/how-to-speed-up-a-slow-woocommerce-store/

If you’ve fought a stubborn LCP on variable products, what was the real culprit?

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