Speeding up WooCommerce is a known sequence – here it is in order of impact.
1. Hosting first. Fast, WooCommerce-aware hosting with server-level full-page caching and object caching is the biggest single lever. 2. A lightweight theme – a block/FSE theme instead of a heavy multipurpose one. 3. Audit plugins by performance impact and cut or replace the heavy ones. 4. Optimise images (compression + WebP/AVIF). 5. Tune the database and caching, including cart-fragment handling. 6. Defer non-critical CSS/JS so the page renders sooner.
Done properly, most stores reach sub-second load times – and the gains are measurable in conversion and ranking, not just in a score. This isn’t guesswork; it’s the same process every time.
Gourmet Basket runs at 0.2 seconds at peak revenue on native WooCommerce. More: why it’s slow · best hosting · the full performance guide