Performance: Improve Lighthouse score from 70 to 90+ on /stories page

[dev-2006-prt]

🐛 Problem

Running a Lighthouse audit on https://safevoiceforwomen.netlify.app/stories
shows the following scores:

• 🔴 Performance: 70
• 🟢 Accessibility: 90
• ✅ Best Practices: 100
• 🟡 SEO: 82

The page loaded too slowly to even finish within Lighthouse's time limit,
meaning real users are experiencing significant delays.

🔧 Proposed Fixes

• Compress and lazy-load images
• Remove unused CSS/JS
• Minify assets
• Fix slow page load / timeout issue
• Improve SEO meta tags

✅ Expected Result

Performance score improved to 90+, faster load times for users.

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Could I be assigned this issue? I'd love to work on it! 🙏

[gitsofyash]

Hi, I'd like to work on this issue under GSSoC 2026. Could you please assign it to me if it's available?

[just-tanvi]

Hi, I am a GSSoC 2026 contributor and would like to work on this.

[Piyushydv08]

🐛 Problem

Running a Lighthouse audit on https://safevoiceforwomen.netlify.app/stories shows the following scores:

• 🔴 Performance: 70
• 🟢 Accessibility: 90
• ✅ Best Practices: 100
• 🟡 SEO: 82

The page loaded too slowly to even finish within Lighthouse's time limit, meaning real users are experiencing significant delays.

🔧 Proposed Fixes

• Compress and lazy-load images
• Remove unused CSS/JS
• Minify assets
• Fix slow page load / timeout issue
• Improve SEO meta tags

✅ Expected Result

Performance score improved to 90+, faster load times for users.

Could I be assigned this issue? I'd love to work on it! 🙏

Assigned to u @dev-2006-prt