Having a site on Webflow is a good start when it comes to improving the performance of your website. Analyses are formal, Webflow is the no-code platform with the best Google Core-Vitals performance. But there are some things you can do to go even further:

The Quick Webflow checklist

1. Delete unused CSS styles

How do you do it? In 2 clicks, from your designer.

Style Manager → Clean Up → Remoove unused CSS.

2. Delete unused interactions/animations

Interactions → Clean Up → Delete

3. Delete unused symbols

4. Enable minimisation of HTML, CSS, JS code

A few checkboxes to tick in your advanced settings. Yes, it's that simple.

5. Delete all unused images from your assets library

6. Delete unused pages

7. Delete unused collections

8. Reduce the amount of interaction/number of styles used in elements/each page.

Animations and interactions are javascript code that weigh down the performance of your website. Go easy on the animations on your pages to get a fast site.

9. Reduce the size and compress your images.

Here are some free image optimization tools: TinyJPG and TinyPNG, ILOVEIMG, Squoosh.

10. Enable Lazy-Load for your images

⚠️ Not for visuals in the header

Conclusion

As you have probably understood, the main idea is that all your data (code, images, etc.) is stored. This data therefore affects the performance of your site. In this respect, it is essential to make sure that you follow good practices and that you only store what you need, which will help speed up your page load times and improve the performance of your site.

If you don't know where to start to analyze the performance of your website without code (Webflow, Wix, or WordPress?). Test these analytics tools ↓

2 free tools to analyse the speed of your site

Here are two tools to analyse the speed of your site:

1. Lighthouse
2. Pingdom

You can find other tools to analyse the speed of your website in our toolbox.

Want to go further in the optimisation process?

This list is a great start but you can get even more from your Webflow site. How? Find a Webflow expert to help you improve your site - Experts can address awide range of issues to help you get the most out of your site.