Warning Performance
Slow response (over 1 second)
- Severity
- Warning
- Impact
- High
- Effort to fix
- High
- Issue code
slow_response
Why it matters
The HTML took more than one second to download. Slow server responses hurt Core Web Vitals and crawl rate.
How to fix it
Improve server response time with caching, a CDN, database tuning or better hosting.
How it affects your score
Finding this issue on any page costs the Performance score 3 points, plus up to 12 more depending on the share of crawled pages affected. Weakens rankings, crawling or measurement. Fix after critical issues.
Find the affected URLs
Open Crawl > Issues and pick Slow response (over 1 second). Each affected URL is listed with its evidence, and Copy URLs or Export URLs hands the list to a developer. The issue also appears in the Action Plan, ranked by impact (high) and effort (high), and in the issues CSV under the code slow_response. After fixing, run a new audit and use Compare to confirm the URLs moved to fixed.