-
Posts
-
Hi!
I just don´t seem to get to 90+.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmfrucht.at
My performance is still on 85/100 (desktop) and 70/100 (mobile), despite having tried several plugins like
– W3 Total Cache (with themeco recommended settings tutorial and got an error on file length with auto minify settings)
– Wp Super Cache
– WP Super Minify
– Better WordPress MinifyI basicly tried almost everything I found here https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-improve-your-google-page-speed-score
And I disabled every cache/speed plugin for now, since it makes no difference at all.How can I make the website faster for google pagespeed insights?
Thanks for your kind words!
StefanHi Stefan,
Thanks for writing in!
You can try using a WordPress plugin such as BWP Minify to minify JavaScript and CSS files in a single file. However, as this is a 3rd party plugin, we cannot guarantee its compatibility as we do not support 3rd party plugins.
You can also review our knowledge base article on Performance.
Thank you!
Hi!
The plugin breaks Cornerstone edit functionality, even if I switch on/off “Minify JS files automatically” and “Minify CSS files automatically?”.
The performance article isn´t helping much, since I mentioned, I´ve already read it and W3 total cache doesn´t help, in fact it reduces the website score!
Can you tell me what really helps to speed up my website for google page speed in particular? Maybe it´s the landing page with the revolution slider, which needs optimization? I have no idea.
Thanks!
StefanHi there Stefan,
Thanks for writing back.
One of the main things to remember is that while getting a good pagespeed score on Google is something that most people want, it’s not always the best, I know sites with a pagespeed score of less than 50, but load quicker than sites with a pagespeed score of 95. In other words, pagespeed isn’t everything and you always want to actually look at how quick your site loads real time. If your site loads quickly, it doesn’t matter what the pagespeed score is.
But, back to the actual issue, if you want to improve the score, you’ll need to optimize all images, you could look at something such as WPSmush https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
Minify css and HTML (don’t minify javascript, it normally causes issues with multiple plugins).
Cache the front-end of the site, using a plugin such as WPRocket or similar, also your server response time is currently around half a second, ideally that should be less than 0.20, but that would be directly related to your host.
Thank you!
I guess I let it be. Everything I do is enhace the score by 1 point with the Autopmize plugin. The others crash Cornerstone or don´t speed up anything. I do have optimized some of my pictures though!
Went from 500kb to 100kb in one case, which is noticeable for me, but doesn´t seem to care google. Whatever…By the way: The server is located in germany and my ping is 60ms, which should be enough for my website and even for some Quake and Unreal Tournament 😉
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for writing back, no problem. Let us know if we can assist at all and if you put together that Quake Tournament, you’ll have to let us know! 🙂
Have a great day!
Couple things I can add:
1) Cornerstone breaks with a few plugins I’ve tested. One workaround I now use is to add this line in the main php file for each plug in (after every update too, remember)
if ( $_GET['cornerstone'] == 1 ) { return; } //exit if editing in cornerstone2) Your biggest loss of points is for “Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content”. You can’t control that without modifying core files. Almost every theme places the css and js in the <head>, which google seems to negatively score.
3) “Leverage browser caching”. Should be covered by W3, but if not, add this to your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year" ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year" ExpiresDefault "access 1 month" </IfModule>4) Your server response time can be affected by the number of plugins. Remove ones you dont need or aren’t using.
Otherwise, it’s not a bad pagespeed score. Yellow warnings shouldn’t negatively affect your rankings.
hi @mikebourne, Thanks for sharing! Have a great day! 🙂
