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How can I improve mobile rendering performance on pages with many images?

I'm helping a client improve SEO performance on a WordPress blog where the posts typically include complex magazine-style layouts with text flowing around large images. The images are all webp and I'...
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Google PageSpeed giving different comparison results to WebPageTest.org

Testing LiteSpeed Cache -v- Rabbit Loader to determine which is faster for my website; https://staging.webby.net.au uses Rabbit Loader https://www.webby.net.au uses LiteSpeed Cache Google PageSpeed ...
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SERP Dropping majorly - Lighthouse SEO Questionmark

Before last week when I checked my website in PageSpeed Insights I had a SEO score of about 92. All of a sudden there is a question mark at the SEO score and my Google ranking is dropping from 5th to ...
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Problem with PageSpeed Insights, question marks and "Required traces gatherer did not run" error

I'm having issue with PageSpeed Insights, when I run an audit I get question marks instead of scores, and under each metric there is an error "Required traces gatherer did not run". Here's a ...
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Google Pagespeed Insights: "Ensure text remains visible during webfont load"

I ran my website on Google's PageSpeed Insight and one of the following errors that I got was: Ensure text remains visible during webfont load When I expanded this, in one fo the lines below this ...
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Why does PageSpeed Insights ask me to use next generation images when I am using Cloudflare Polish?

When I test my site on Google's PageSpeed Insights, it reports that some of the images should be optimized by converting them to .webp or .avif format. However, I am already using the Cloudflare ...
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Why would Google Analytics report slow loading times when other website testing tools show it is very fast?

I have a WordPress website that is well optimized on Pingdom, GTMetrix, and GPI. When I check on Analytics Speed timings some of its pages have an average load time speed of more than 3 seconds, you ...
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Page Speed Insights Do Subdomains Affect The Origin Summary?

We recently saw a pretty dramatic drop in rankings for our biggest terms. Our origin summary has dropped below that of our competitors. When I run the page speed insights scans on individual pages ...
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I want to measure websites with restricted access with Page Speed ​Insight

I want to measure websites with IP access restrictions in the development environment etc. with Google's Page Speed ​​Insight. Is it possible to use the above web services and APIs? If the access ...
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Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Issue: How to find the cause?

In Google Search Console > Core Web Vitals, I have many 'poor' pages, and the problem GSC is saying is Cumulative Layout Shift CLS. Doing a page speeds insights (PSI) analysis, shows a very poor (...
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Embedded YouTube video is slowing down my site

I got a warning about my page speed performance being suboptimal. Turns out that an iframe of 1 embedded YouTube video is loading one JS file that adds half a second to my page load. I added loading=&...
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Can PageSpeed Insights show a breakdown by device or browser for visitors that score 'poor' for FCP, LCP, and CLS?

I'm looking to better understand the population of site visitors to our site that fall in the 'poor'/red zone of FCP, LCP, and CLS of our Field Data metrics on PageSpeed Insights. Does anyone know of ...
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Why does Google Page Experience show 0% Good URLs when most of the URLs have green scores in Pagespeed for FCP, LCP, FID etc.?

The website has around 300 URLs. There are no Mobile Usability Issues reported in the google search console. There are no Security Issues reported in the google search console. There are no Ad ...
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Https- and www-redirects accepted by Google Pagespeed Insights

This question builds on this stackexchange-thread The question of mentioned thread was how to write a proper http-to-https and nonwww-to-www redirect, that Google Pagespeed Insights would approve of. ...
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Page Speed Insight suggests that I remove unused JavaScript, but those scripts are needed for the pages to work

I deferred all my scripts in this way <script defer src="https://mywebsite/javascript/jquery-3.1.1.min.js" > but Page Speed Insights wants me to remove them. I cannot remove them. The ...
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Should I remove HTTP to HTTPS redirects to fix performance problems reported by Google Pagespeed Insights?

I have created a brand new website in which I publish various computing services I suggest to potential customers. As far as I know, no other website on the World Wide Web links to that website and ...
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SEO Affected by Sizes Attribute in Images

If we set sizes="(max-width: 450px) 50vw") of the image but later we will expand this image to full width. Will google penalize us for it as we expanded the image to 100vw but told Google to ...
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HTTP to HTTPS redirect causes critical chained request in Google Page Speed Insights

My WordPress website is configured to use HTTPS. After running the site through Google Page Speed Insights, the report shows a section labeled Avoid chaining critical requests 1 chain found Expanding ...
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Avoid multiple page redirects about from HTTP to HTTPS and from non-www HTTPS to with-www HTTPS

Humbly, In Google PageSpeed Insights test I got 95 score for mobile and 95 score for desktop with pretty much just one error: Avoid multiple page redirects The first entry of the error is about HTTP ...
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Prerendering vs. loadtime optimization

While loadtime optimization we turn many adjusting screws, which all have different efficiency and need different afforts. Is it not better to prerender all, or most important, pages and to guarantee, ...
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PageSpeed Insights warns me about my AMP pages: "Remove duplicate modules in JavaScript bundles"

I've checked the score of my AMP pages with Google PageSpeed Insight, and I received this message in red: "Remove duplicate modules in JavaScript bundles" This is the initial piece of code ...
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Chrome dev tools reports “Stalled' and ”Initial connection" under mobile mode only

One of my static pages(generated by Hugo) is loading slow on mobile mode, but the exact same page was fine on desktop mode. (google page load speed desktop score 97, but failed Core Web Vitals on ...
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Can I rely on Google Lighthouse reports (especially for mobile sites)?

We have started to use Lighthouse to track the improvements we make to our sites. While this seems to work quite well for desktop sites, i.e. we see the values improve over time and as we make changes,...
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Time to FCP changes based on order of <h2> and <p> tags

I was troubleshooting why one particular page took a full second longer to reach FCP compared to similar pages for mobile according to Google's Page Insights. The difference ended up being the order ...
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FCP issue: longer than 3s (desktop)

I am facing speed issue in google search console Although my site speed is considered good as shown from multiple speed tools Google Lighthouse Gtmetrix I have requested to validate this issue ...
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Google PageSpeed insights disregards rel="preload" for mobile only

As PageSpeed insights tool report claimed my page could be improved by preloading 2 of the fonts on my page, I added rel="preload" to the <link> tags in question. However, PageSpeed Insights ...
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Pagespeed Insights reports that Google Analytics is blocking main thread in page load

I'm chasing page speed, partly as proof that getting 90%+ is consistently achievable. My main issue now is Google Analytics. In the below example, it's loaded via Google Tag Manager, so there's just ...
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How does Google judge page performance if audience is from one specific region & server is also in same region

I want to know how does Google Judge page performance, let us our server are located in India as our audience is from India and page speed over all is fine based on FF developer tools & Chrome .. ...
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Why does Google Pagespeed have two different meaurements for First Contentful Paint (FCP)?

I'm auditing the speed of some top pages on my site, and want to collect load time data so I can compare in the coming months. I'm using PageSpeed Insights to measure my pages, but I'm confused ...
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Error with all pagespeed test tools [closed]

I'm trying to reduce my pagespeed loading time However all tools I try to use give an error. Google pagespeed insights gives a backend error, pindom tool just says it does not work and webpagetest....
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Google Pagespeed test, image slowing speed

I have to test the speed from my Website with PageSpeed Insights, it found what slow my sites, I have to try how here to say, but nothing to change... My Website has with SSL, https://linuxusers....
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MediaWiki: Avoid multiple page redirects

I have an all default MediaWiki website: No added CSS/JS, No added extensions or custom PHP. I run the homepage of that website in Google Pagespeed Insights and I get: MediaWiki: Avoid multiple ...
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Does wordpress give a disadvantage to your page speed score?

I have a website for instance that only contains the default "Hello World" and other headers and internal links as it is a new wordpress installation. It uses the Twenty Nineteen theme which I believe ...
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Is a site going to get blacklisted if it serves different versions to Google's Pagespeed crawlers and normal users?

The question is really two-fold: Is it possible to cheat a pagespeed analyzer by detecting the useragent (~Lighthouse | other pagespeed crawlers) and serving a reduced and faster version of the ...
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What does it mean to have "Web browser is waiting for data from the server" high on a speed test site. I have 21560.1s in wait time? [duplicate]

The web page took 22792 ms to load, used 119 requests, and weighed in at 1.7 MB. The Google Page Speed performance grade for this web page is 70/100. I'm looking to decrease my load times, but am ...
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Should we improve time to first byte or Page Speed Insights score for SEO?

Google posted last summer that "page speed" will impact the search result rankings also on mobile devices. But I think there is a little confusion about the term "page speed". The test tool which ...
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If I change a Wordpress Theme then will it result in Performance and Page Loading Speed Improvements?

My wordpress blog is running on a very advanced, powerful and e-commerce capable theme. The issue is, this theme is packed with hundreds of DOM classes, Javascripts library and multiple CSS files. ...
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Page Speed Insights: SPA receives 66/100 on mobile however 0/100 on desktop

I've created a single page application using AngularJS but noticed that on desktop the Google Page Speed Insights is ranking the Desktop as 0/100 even though there is no change between scripts/...
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Google PageSpeed Inisghts cannot render page

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: ...
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Does Google PageSpeed Insights have nothing to do with where my server is?

Here is the Page Speed Insight: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ I sometimes run my website on it but ALWAYS get the same result. However, I used to think this is very ...
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How to Fix Leverage browser caching connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js?

While testing my site on Google PageSpeed insights tools it showing very much poor result of Mobile Page Load speed as you see on the image. How can i get a well score.is it will be solved if solve ...
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PageSpeed Insights Render Blocking Styles on Secondary Pages Only

I am working in a custom WordPress theme and trying to optimize for higher scores on Google's PageSpeed Insights. I have the homepage scoring 100/100 for mobile/desktop with zero render blocking ...
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Prioritise Visible Content - Google PageSpeed Insights

Wondering if anyone can help me. I'm having issues with prioritizing visible content (PVC). I've read all the Google documentation and understand the above-the-fold content is the top 500px but can'...
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Leverage Browser Caching for third party resources

I am optimising a website based on PageSpeed Insights guidelines. And one of the points is to Leverage Browser Caching. And in this case - for the third party resources - like Google Analytics and ...
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Getting F on PageSpeed because not resized to 0x0

I suddenly started getting an F for scaled images on PageSpeed Insights, and reading the details it said: ....jpg is resized in HTML or CSS from 1024x680 to 0x0. Serving a scaled image could save ...
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Do PageSpeed Insights vary by location?

I'm testing my own website using google page speed insights API with the following URL https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v2/runPagespeed?url=http://hazemhagrass.com&strategy=desktop I ...
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Google Analytics considers Gleam App's loading time as a Page Loading time.

I have embedded the Gleam App widget on my client's website. Let me inform about the Gleam app first. The Gleam App is used for the Giveaways. The participant has to complete certain entries to get ...
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Redirect to WWW with HTTPS optimization

I want to redirect all my website pages to https and www. In order to do that I'm using the rules below and it's working fine. # Rewrite to WWW with HTTPS RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off # First rewrite to ...
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What is above-the-fold content?

According to the "About" page of Google PageSpeed Insights the test measures: time to above-the-fold load: Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page and to the moment the above-the-fold ...
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Leverage Browser caching - not picking up expires header

Currently working on improving my page speed score with Google PageSpeed Insights. My biggest issue according to PageSpeed Insights is Leverage browser caching. About 17 images come back as "no ...
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