My site’s homepage has turned sluggish and a functionality problem is clearly behind it. The rest of the site behaves normally, yet that first page now hesitates before rendering content, delaying the user experience by several seconds. I’m tracing the slowdown to loading-speed issues rather than anything visual, so I need a developer who can quickly pinpoint and resolve the underlying code or query that is blocking the page. You’ll start with a clean audit of the homepage request flow—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, server-side logic, and any outbound calls or heavy SQL queries—to locate the bottleneck. Once identified, optimize or refactor as needed, then verify that the page consistently loads at normal speed in modern browsers and on mobile. Deliverables • Root-cause report summarizing the functionality problem you found • Optimized code or configuration changes applied in my repo or staging environment • Final confirmation that the homepage now loads within expected time (GTmetrix or Lighthouse screenshot is fine) If this single-page fix goes smoothly, I have more work waiting on deeper performance tuning across the site.