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I am getting "The URL was fetched, but nothing was rendered" error in PageSpeed Inisghts, consistently over a few days.

It's a new website.

Every other tool I tried says there's nothing wrong:

  • GTMetrix shows PageSpeed 99%, YSlow 90%
  • Pingdom gives it 91
  • WebPageTest.org gives it AAAAB
  • Lighthouse on my PC gives it 85, no errors

Why is PageSpeed unable to render it and how do I troubleshoot this?

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  • Most likely a temporary issue at Google... what does Google Fetch report? since this is the only report you should be concerned with in regards of rendering the page.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Jul 15, 2018 at 7:54
  • that works fine. Also this one works OK too search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly. This has been going on for several days now, so it does not look temporary. I wonder if it is related to my location (NZ). It seems to work for GTMetrix, possibly because they're in the US...
    – under
    Commented Jul 15, 2018 at 22:10
  • GTMetrix, Web Page Test, Pingdom and others do not render the page, they use loading snapshots which is completely different.Try this third party: technicalseo.com/seo-tools/fetch-render
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Jul 15, 2018 at 22:34
  • Can't get to that tool, but google's search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly test works and is able to render the page
    – under
    Commented Jul 16, 2018 at 8:09
  • Then there's nothing to worry about. Google insights are poop anyway. If the website is faster than 2 > 1.5 seconds then all is good. Google does not use Insights as a ranking factor and in fact, most of the top ranking websites in the world score extremely badly.
    – Simon Hayter
    Commented Jul 16, 2018 at 22:58

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OK, found the answer. The problem was in my code. I am calling ipstack.com API to get user's country from IP address. The IP used by PageSpeed does not have a country which I was not handling in my code.

Fixed that and page speed now works fine.

Hopefully this can save someone some time...

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