What are some general recommendations to improve the loading speed of a slow website?

Reducing fonts, image sizes, and overlapping elements directly decreases the total data a browser needs to download and render, thereby speeding up page load times. Larger image sizes with higher resolution increase file size and download time. Increasing the number of fonts loading on each page adds more HTTP requests and data to download, slowing performance. Adding more third-party embeds, scripts, apps, and plugins introduces additional code, external requests, and potential rendering blockers, all of which can significantly degrade loading speed.