Contact person: Buyme.lk Load Time Optimization

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Location: Melbourne, Australia

Budget: Recommended by industry experts

Time to start: As soon as possible

Project description:
"Visitors who land on [login to view URL] for the first time are waiting 20-40 seconds before anything usable appears, while repeat visits load quickly from cache. Server resources are healthy (Hostinger) and every image has already been compressed, so the bottleneck is almost certainly in the application layer. The site runs on a customised Laraclassified build that has grown over the years; I now need an expert eye to trim the fat and streamline the code-to-browser path without touching the visual design.

Where I believe the wins lie
• Minifying or intelligently bundling JavaScript and CSS so the browser no longer hauls an oversized payload on first view
• Profiling and refactoring MySQL queries that may be blocking Time to First Byte
• Removing any render-blocking resources, introducing critical CSS, or deferring non-essential scripts
• Staying lightweight with any tooling—feel free to use Laravel-native optimisers, Webpack, Vite, or plain PHP where it makes sense

Non-negotiables
• The look, layout, and branding must remain exactly as they are; only performance-related code paths or queries should change.
• Any third-party libraries you add must be minimal and future-maintainable.

Reference pages for baseline testing
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Expected outcome
1. First-time load under 5 seconds on an average 4G connection (or a demonstrably significant improvement if technical limits arise).
2. A concise report outlining what was done, why it works, and how I can keep it tuned during future updates.

If this sounds like your kind of optimisation puzzle, tell me how you would approach the audit, which tools you prefer, and a rough timeline for getting us from sluggish to snappy." (client-provided description)