> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hiveku.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Make a Slow Page Load Faster > Find out which pages of your site load slowly and why, ask the builder AI to make them lighter, then publish and check again A page that takes a long time to load loses visitors, and Google ranks it lower. The Performance audit times the pages of your live site, says which ones are slow and what makes them heavy, such as large images, and tells you what to change. This guide checks Northwind's live site, [www.northwindroasters.com](http://www.northwindroasters.com). ## Run the Performance audit **1. Open Performance** Click **Marketing** in the left rail, then the **SEO Analysis** card, then **Manual Tools** at the top. Click **Launch Site Audit**, then the **Performance** card under **Site Audit Tools**. **2. Enter your live address** Type the address visitors use, such as [www.northwindroasters.com](http://www.northwindroasters.com), and pick how many pages to read: **10 pages (Quick)** is enough for a small site. Click **Analyze Performance**. It takes a minute or two. ![Performance Analysis: the address www.northwindroasters.com, outlined; 10 pages (Quick), outlined; Analyze Performance and History](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/0_-ZD3htsITddYNX/images/how-tos/site-builder/perf-01-run-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=0_-ZD3htsITddYNX\&q=85\&s=4b60425e4e569e494c54bbfc4e7f6e7f) Checking Northwind's live site Use your live address. A Development address is kept out of search engines, so the audit can't read it and says so. ## Read the results The cards at the top give the **Overall Score**, how many pages the audit read, how many kinds of speed problem it found, and the **Load Time**: how long it took the page's main content to appear. ![Overall Score 54.00/100, Site health from the crawl, outlined; Pages Audited 10; Speed Issues 1, Kinds of speed problem found; and Load Time 1.1 s, When the page's main content appeared (LCP), outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/0_-ZD3htsITddYNX/images/how-tos/site-builder/perf-02-score-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=0_-ZD3htsITddYNX\&q=85\&s=7b516f6ce41e08e60e004d7a65f53830) Northwind's score and load time Below them, **Core Web Vitals Assessment** marks Google's three speed checks **Good** or not, with the target for each. ## See which pages are slow, and why **Performance Issues & Recommendations** lists each kind of problem, how many pages it affects, what the audit measured on each page, and what to do. ![Performance Issues and Recommendations: High, Slow loading pages, 1 page; www.northwindroasters.com: Took 4.1 s to load when the audit read it. The server took 0.3 s to start sending it. What it loads: Images 9.7 MB, Scripts 370 KB. 2 scripts and style sheets have to load before the page can show, outlined; and the recommendation, outlined: Make these pages lighter: compress or resize large images, load images further down the page only when visitors scroll to them, and remove videos, embeds and scripts the page does not need](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/0_-ZD3htsITddYNX/images/how-tos/site-builder/perf-03-issue-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=0_-ZD3htsITddYNX\&q=85\&s=d77652651643238a1970d3299ca1277b) The home page is heavy with images Northwind's home page loads 9.7 MB of images, far more than a page needs, while its server answers quickly. So the images are what to fix. ## Fix it and check again **1. Ask the builder AI** Open the site in the builder and tell the AI what the audit found, for example: > The home page loads 9.7 MB of images and takes 4 seconds. Compress and resize the images on the home page, and load the images further down the page only when visitors scroll to them. Keep the page looking the same. To try it without touching your live site, do this on a branch: see [Try a Change on a Branch First](https://docs.hiveku.com/how-tos/site-builder/try-on-a-branch.md). **2. Publish, then run the audit again** [Publish your changes](https://docs.hiveku.com/how-tos/site-builder/publish.md), then click **Analyze Performance** again. **History** keeps your earlier results, so you can compare the load time before and after. ## Good to know * **Other checks:** the **Technical**, **Content** and **Mobile** cards run the other parts of the audit. See [Run a Site Audit and Fix What It Finds](https://docs.hiveku.com/how-tos/marketing/site-audit.md). * **Fast server, slow page?** When the server answers in under a second but the page is slow, the page itself is too heavy: images, videos or extra scripts. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.