The phone's processor is kept busy for seconds Lighthouse: Minimize main-thread work · 28.4 s · could save about 10.6 s
Images bigger or heavier than a phone needs Lighthouse: Improve image delivery · Est savings of 1,575 KiB · could save about 6.8 s
Images below the fold loading before they're needed Lighthouse: Defer offscreen images · Est savings of 1,761 KiB · could save about 6.3 s
What it costs
Google calls 2.5 s or less good for the main content. surlatable.com is 17.2 s past that on a mid-range phone.
Speed is money: in Deloitte's 2020 study Milliseconds Make Millions (37 brands, 30 million sessions), making a site just 0.1 s faster on phones went with 8.4% more orders for retail sites and 10.1% for travel sites. Most slow pages come down to one or two root causes.
Want it fixed?
We find the root cause across the browser, the network and the server, fix it,
and prove it with a before-and-after test. Start with a Diagnosis: a written root cause and a fix plan.