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INFRASTRUCTURE
WordPress Infrastructure Review
Overall Infrastructure Health
Syntides is operating a substantial WooCommerce catalog with more than
1,300 products in the Peptides category alone and a much broader
chemical and research-material taxonomy behind it.
The concern is that the storefront is being delivered through an aging
frontend architecture that is struggling on mobile. Lighthouse scored
the site at 59 for mobile performance, with a 9.3 second Largest
Contentful Paint and a 0.19 layout shift score. The current catalog is
functional, but the technical presentation is not keeping pace with
the size or complexity of the business.
Infrastructure Scorecard
Top 3 Opportunities
Fix the 9.3 Second Mobile LCP
Mobile performance is being heavily affected by the site’s header
image. The SYNTIDES header graphic is a roughly 1.07 MB PNG at
1800×400 pixels even though it is displayed at approximately
721×160 pixels.
Lighthouse estimates more than 1 MB of savings from that image
alone. Rebuilding it as a properly sized WebP or AVIF asset,
providing explicit dimensions and prioritizing its delivery would
directly address both LCP and layout stability.
Modernize the Frontend Asset Stack
The initial render is currently blocked by a long chain of theme,
WooCommerce, Ninja Forms, Font Awesome, Google Fonts and legacy
JavaScript dependencies.
Lighthouse estimates roughly 2.8 seconds of potential render-
blocking savings. The site is also loading five separate Google
Font families plus older theme scripts and jQuery dependencies.
Consolidating and conditionally loading these assets would make
the catalog substantially leaner.
Rework Catalog Navigation & Product Discovery
The business has an unusually deep catalog, but the current
browsing experience exposes a very long nested category tree in
the sidebar while products are displayed in small, dense cards.
A modern product archive with searchable filters, cleaner
taxonomy controls and larger product cards would make the catalog
significantly easier to browse without changing the underlying
WooCommerce product data.
Things We Like
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Large and well-established WooCommerce product catalog -
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Product taxonomy is already extensively organized -
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Product pages include technical details such as purity, CAS number and molecular formula -
✓
HTTPS is active and the site avoids obvious browser errors -
✓
91 Accessibility and 92 SEO scores provide a good starting foundation
Potential Business Impact
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Faster first impression for mobile buyers -
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Easier discovery across thousands of catalog items -
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Cleaner and more credible product presentation -
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Reduced dependence on legacy theme assets -
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Better foundation for continued catalog expansion
PageSpeed Insight Mobile
/100
Mobile PSI
Needs Improvement
rather than heavy interaction blocking. Total Blocking Time is only
20ms, which means there is a clear optimization path without
rebuilding every part of the site.
Performance Snapshot
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59
Mobile Lighthouse Performance -
9.3s
Largest Contentful Paint -
3.5s
First Contentful Paint -
20ms
Total Blocking Time -
0.19
Cumulative Layout Shift
Technology Overview
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WordPress + WooCommerce -
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Songwriter WordPress theme -
✓
All in One SEO Pack -
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Ninja Forms frontend dependencies -
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GoDaddy platform utilities -
✓
Cloudflare detected
Best Initial Fit
WooCommerce Performance + Catalog Modernization
Syntides does not need its catalog rebuilt from scratch. The product
data, categories and WooCommerce structure already contain
substantial business value. The best initial engagement would be to
modernize the frontend around that existing data: performance
optimization, archive filtering, improved product cards and a
cleaner PDP template.
Image & Asset Delivery
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1.07 MB
Current header PNG -
1.05 MB
Estimated savings on that header image -
1.78 MB
Approximate total Lighthouse page weight -
2.8s
Estimated render-blocking savings -
5
Separate Google Font families detected
Accessibility & SEO
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91
Lighthouse Accessibility -
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Low-contrast text and pricing detected across archive elements -
!
Mobile navigation select is missing an accessible label -
!
Main landmark is missing -
92
Lighthouse SEO -
!
Meta description missing
User Experience
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Archive pages expose an extremely long category sidebar -
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Product cards are visually dense and relatively small -
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Product pages have substantial unused whitespace -
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Technical product information is already available -
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Existing catalog data can support a much stronger modern interface