Hi Woodmart team,
I’m working on improving the Core Web Vitals of my WooCommerce site using the Woodmart theme.
I’ve noticed that the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is consistently delayed due to the product image slider, even when there’s only one image displayed.
To troubleshoot this, I created a stripped-down product page with only the featured image — no gallery images, no extra content — and still encountered the issue. The image is rendered inside the woocommerce-product-gallery slider structure, which seems to be initialized with JS (Swiper or your custom carousel), and this delays rendering despite using fetchpriority=”high” and preload.
As a comparison, I’ve tested your own Woodmart demo product:
https://woocommerce-625997-2033187.cloudwaysapps.com/product/wine-bottle-lantern/
It gets a good PageSpeed score, but still shows a red “LCP delayed by rendering” in the audit, with over 2s delay — same issue as on my site.
My question:
Is there a recommended way to disable the product image slider entirely, or to have the first image rendered statically outside the Swiper slider, so it can be used as a proper LCP element?
If there’s a theme setting, hook or override that allows this, I’d love to apply it — performance is a key focus for us.
Thank you for your help!
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