Hey Envato Community! I’ve been working on several WordPress projects and noticed that theme performance can make or break a website’s user experience. What are your go-to strategies for optimizing WordPress themes for speed? Do you have any favorite plugins, coding techniques, or hosting solutions that help improve load times? Also, how do you balance performance with design and functionality?
Looking forward to hearing your tips and experiences! 
Here are some Envato Tuts+ resources that might help you optimize your WordPress website.
You can try the following combo:
Site metrics I handled for clients are all good. I think you might consider this combo.
However, my suggestion is that you should test website access on actual devices. If everything loads quickly and smoothly (<2s), then it’s good. Metrics are often just guidelines set to facilitate search engine data collection and analysis.
If you’re doing SEO now, you’ll notice that even when everything is perfectly optimized according to these metrics, a site might still not rank at the top—and sometimes even lower than non-optimized sites.
For Core Web Vitals, you should focus only on optimizing the metrics that directly impact user experience.
Almost everyone has a Gmail account, so I assume Google understands users very well when they interact with a site. In my opinion, these behavioral factors play a crucial role in ranking.
Additionally, the more powerful and closer the server is to your customers’ location, the better it can compensate and enhance optimal performance. For images, consider using a CDN if your site has high traffic.
P/S: Just sharing my personal opinion! 
