I’m using the WoodMart slider on the homepage, and it consistently reduces the Google PageSpeed score by ~10–15 points (both Mobile and Desktop). When I disable/remove the slider section, the score improves immediately, so the impact seems directly related to the slider implementation.
Could you please help me understand:
1. What exactly is causing the performance hit (e.g., JS/CSS size, render-blocking resources, DOM complexity, lazy-load behavior, LCP element being inside the slider, preload settings, etc.)?
2. What is the recommended way to optimize this slider in WoodMart without removing it?
What I’m looking for (ideally):
• Best-practice settings for WoodMart slider to improve LCP / reduce main-thread work.
• How to ensure images in the first slide are properly optimized (preload / fetchpriority, correct sizing, lazy-load for non-first slides).
• Whether the slider loads unused JS/CSS globally and if there’s a way to load it conditionally only on the homepage.
• Any known issues/conflicts with optimization plugins (e.g., LiteSpeed Cache) and the safest settings to avoid breaking the slider while improving PageSpeed.
• If there is a lighter alternative inside WoodMart recommended for performance.
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