Page Speed

[Wirenut]

PageSpeed Insights grades my website 48 Mobile and 73 desktop.

A lot of the issues are render blocking resources and other things that I don't think I have much control over due to using a CMS. The actual page loading seems very good on all of the dozens of different computers and phones I have tried it from (for the first time, it was not cached). But I am wondering if those scores will hurt my standings in GMB or organic?

 

[djbaxter]

At those levels, not likely.

Which test did you use? There are actually several and they will often give you different results. In addition, it depends on a number of factors besides your site, including things like where the page access originates, weather/atmospheric conditions, momentary server loads, etc., etc. Also, of course, those tests do not have browser caching to reduce the load times for subsequent pages on the same site.

What I do is follow the advice when it comes to things lime optimizing images and that sort of thing, but every test I have ever run on any site always mentions "render blocking resources" and in practice there are only a limited number of things you can do to change that.

If you are worried, try running tests on other test sites and see what they say. One thing I have noticed is that the even two Google test sites show differences in their speed tests.

 

[Wirenut]

At those levels, not likely.

Which test did you use? There are actually several and they will often give you different results.

I used this one: PageSpeed Insights

In addition, it depends on a number of factors besides your site, including things like where the page access originates, weather/atmospheric conditions, momentary server loads, etc., etc. Also, of course, those tests do not have browser caching to reduce the load times for subsequent pages on the same site.

What I do is follow the advice when it comes to things lime optimizing images and that sort of thing, but every test I have ever run on any site always mentions "render blocking resources" and in practice there are only a limited number of things you can do to change that.

If you are worried, try running tests on other test sites and see what they say. One thing I have noticed is that the even two Google test sites show differences in their speed tests.

I'm not worried as long as you say that it is not likely to affect my rankings.

I have done like you said and compressed the images and taken care of the little things that I was able to.

And I know what you mean about testing being different because even using the same test it could jump from 48 to 39 to 65 at times.

 

[djbaxter]

Here are some others, including another one from Google, if you're interested:

How speeding up your mobile site can improve your bottom line

Google's Official Digital Marketing Publication. Discover helpful mobile tools and resources to optimize your site or app, check page speed, and more.

www.thinkwithgoogle.com

Pingdom Tools

Full Page Test Analysis

tools.pingdom.com

WebPageTest

View this on WebPageTest.org...

webpagetest.org

Website Speed Test | Check Web Performance » Dotcom-Tools

Run a free website speed test! Check page load speed from 20 global locations. Test real web browsers: IE, Chrome, Firefox, mobile. Analyze your site today.

www.dotcom-tools.com

Also check your site here:

HTTP Compression Test / WhatsMyIP.org

HTTP Compression Tester lets you verify that web content is being compressed using gzip / deflate / mod_gzip / mod_deflate. Test your web site after enabling compression.

www.whatsmyip.org

 

[Blake Denman]

What CMS are you using?

 

[Wirenut]

Wow, big fluctuation in the results lol.

 

[Suresh]

Each tools shows different data. You should start optimising the site for the 3G connection and low processing device. That's where lighthouse helps to find.

If you optimise for that low speed and the low powered device, then your site will be very faster.

This is the website to test it out

WebPageTest

View this on WebPageTest.org...

webpagetest.org

Good luck.

 

[djbaxter]

I'm pretty sure the Google sites, or at least the PageSpeed Insights one, uses Lighthouse.

Overview | Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers

Learn how to set up Lighthouse to audit your web apps.

developers.google.com

#psi

Overview | Lighthouse | Chrome for Developers

Learn how to set up Lighthouse to audit your web apps.

developers.google.com

 

[Suresh]

Google page speed insights uses the chrome user experience reports. That's why it's hard to optimise the site, as it's gets too technical.

Google lighthouse helps to understand it way better, especially for slow performance devices.

You can do lighthouse check in the chrome browser too.

 

[djbaxter]

It does both:

About PageSpeed Insights | Google for Developers

developers.google.com

PageSpeed Insights (PSI) reports on the performance of a page on both mobile and desktop devices, and provides suggestions on how that page may be improved.

PSI provides both lab and field data about a page. Lab data is useful for debugging performance issues, as it is collected in a controlled environment. However, it may not capture real-world bottlenecks. Field data is useful for capturing true, real-world user experience - but has a more limited set of metrics. See How To Think About Speed Tools for more information on the 2 types of data.

Performance score

At the top of the report, PSI provides a score which summarizes the page’s performance. This score is determined by running Lighthouse to collect and analyze lab data about the page. A score of 90 or above is considered fast, and 50 to 90 is considered moderate. Below 50 is considered to be slow.

Real-World Field Data

When PSI is given a URL, it will look it up in the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) dataset. If available, PSI reports the First Contentful Paint (FCP) and the First Input Delay (FID) metric data for the origin and potentially the specific page URL.

 

[Wirenut]

Webpagetest.org gave me different results, much better.

One of the things I need to update is to add a Meta Description. I thought that wasn't needed, but that test is saying to add it.

 

[djbaxter]

A meta description isn't needed. And it won't affect page load speeds.

 

[Wirenut]

A meta description isn't needed. And it won't affect page load speeds.

Yeah, it was mentioned in the SEO portion of that test. I wonder if I could get a 100 if I add the Meta Descriptions lol.

 

[Wirenut]

Speaking of speed, has anyone seen this in Search Console?

 

[djbaxter]

Which part? The "no data" part?

 

[djbaxter]

See

Google Search Console begins rolling out Speed report

Check out your new Speed report under the Enhancements tab within Google Search Console.

searchengineland.com

Google Search Console Speed Reports Rolling Out

Google is now rolling out the experimental and new "Speed" reports within Google Search Console. Google began testing this last May and we have seen more and more webmasters get this report since then but now Google announced it is rolling out as "experimental."

www.seroundtable.com

 

[Wirenut]

I meant the experimental Speed report. I just saw it pop up this morning.

 

[Elpak]

Pay attention to the speed of your site. A slow site warning is already displayed at GA. Google 2020 will focus even more on speed.

 

[Suresh]

Just found this today, you can get the chrome user experience reports data of your site over this site.

Crux.run

You can find all the previous months CRUX data.

Very handy.