Questions tagged [page-speed]
Page-Speed normally refers to the time it takes for a web-page to be presented to a browser in a "fully loaded" state.
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What client on webpagetest.org is equivalent to googlebot client?
I made various speed tests to my website via webpagetest.org and I used a mobile network in California (which I believe is the closest one to google) to measure the speed of my site. It reports the ...
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Does background video affect SEO?
Does the extra loading time that a background video has, affect SEO? Or that does not really affect it because the HTML already loaded and the video is just streaming after?
Does it make a difference ...
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Specify a character set for fontawesome-webfont.woff2
I am looking to speed up my website as much as possible and am using gtmetrix. The last thing on the PageSpeed list that I have to complete is
Specify a character set early:
The following resources ...
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Change MX record - separate mailserver from webserver
Ok, we all encountered at least one request to change MX entry and separate mailserver from webserver. That's all fine, we all know how to do it.
My problem here is this... let's say I put a site on ...
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Akamai vs pagespeed module
We have akamai as CDN, we also have Apache before our website. We want to utilise the page speed module benefits. We are just worried about how page speed cache will affect our application where we ...
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Theme load speed - do a few seconds matter?
Here’s a questions for the devs and SEO guru’s … If we are looking at themes to help speed up the front end dev and design time on certain projects do we need to take into consideration the load speed ...
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Streaming Vs Downloading Site Load Speed debate
We have a number of sites that use bg video - currently the video file (1.4mb) is loaded from the server and increases page load.
My question is whether streaming the video on loop via Vimeo or ...
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Getting Pagespeed 100/100 can get you penalized in Google?
I am a developer on a website, and I am trying every possible way to get highest score 100/100 on Google pagespeed.
But it comes out that this sanbox checker tools show as penalized from time to time ...
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Page speed - Loading comments on an article/blog post
So I'm currently building a template page to use for articles that we will be purchasing from a content writer (so basically we are content marketing). I'm finishing up the layout on the comment ...
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Why would my site load slower after I switched to https?
I bought and implemented an SSL certificate on my website and it seems to load a lot slower than before.
Why does this happen and how can it be fixed?
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Browser Cache Control
First: I'm a Designer that knows some HTML and CSS, not a programmer, so I'm so in advance for my limited knowledge and understanding :)
My website skeleton is based on a single HTML and a few CSS &...
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How do I decrease first byte time with GoDaddy and GitHub pages?
I've been trying to optimize my site as much as possible. One thing I can't figure out is reducing first byte time as WebPagetest gives me an "F". Does anyone have any tips for this? My site domain is ...
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How to SpeedUp? Small Wordpress page, 447kb, load time ~3sec
Testing:
Under NameCheap shared hosting my 5 page Wordpress site first page is 447kb HTTPS and 23 requests but takes 3 seconds to load (pingdom). That is rather poor right? Tried a second time ...
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Google PageSpeed Insight: redirecting non-www to www does not use cache version
If I test my website with Google PageSpeed, I get a lower score if I test mydomain.com than if I test www.mydomain.com.
In the first case, Google complains my server took too much time to respond.
I ...
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Google Page speed test showing 0 page speed
I tried to test the speed of a website and it appeared to show 0 speed. Why would a site have 0 speed? Please guide me. Thanks.
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Reducing waiting delay to webpage rendering time?
I ran a few tests on my website at webpagetest.org and while the Time to First Byte is under 200ms, it seems that in all tests I have run in different browsers at different locations, the page is ...
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Do websites have to rank an "A" on GTMetrix?
Lately I've noticed that a lot of clients refer to the GTMetrix rating system when discussing deliverables for their website. In their eyes, GTMetrix is great because it allows them to validate the ...
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requests with http://. should I block?
I took a look at my logs and found out that earlier this year, random computers made a request to resources and my log recorded it as follows:
"GET http://testp3.pospr.waw.pl/testproxy.php HTTP/1.1"
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What size (in bytes) constraints are industry standard for web images?
Back in the day you wanted your images to be 5 KB and going above 30 KB was considered crazy. What are the industry standards these days?
I just ran GTMetrix on Yahoo.com and came back with images ...
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Pagespeed rating vs server speed from a SEO perspective
What's more important for my website, from a SEO perspective?
I first had a page load time from around 900ms and a google rating from about 70.
Using some plugins I managed to get the rating up to ...
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Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
When you seek speed score in Google Page Insight, you may be seen a warning like "Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content ", i have been looking for a solution to fix ...
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Improve load speed of web page with many images [duplicate]
I own an ecommerce website built with Magento that has many images in the homepage for promotional banners. What is the best way to improve load speed? Reducing the file size sacrifice quality, so is ...
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Will asynchronous JavaScript affect SEO?
As page load time affects SEO ranking. In my site I am having some asynchronous JavaScript like AddThis, Google Translator which makes my page load time longer. I want to know whether is there any ...
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Does SPDY benefit SEO rankings?
Google have stated that speed is a ranking factor:
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/site-speed/
Does implementing SPDY have any consequence for SEO?
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When a mod_rewrite redirect is in place, do absent <img>s still cost more server time than present <img>s?
I have a series of webpages in which the <html> refers to:
<img src="img1.png" [...] />
<img src="img2.png" [...] />
<img src="img3.png" [...] />
After I realised that ...
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What if one certain page is much slower than the rest of your website?
I have a very fast website, but there is one overview page that queries a lot and takes 16 to 17 seconds to load.
Will this have an impact on my SEO?
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ExpiresByType not working for PNG images when set in .htaccess for a WordPress site
In my website I have the expires headers settings reported below. When I use Google's PageSpeed Insights test I get the message: XYZ.png expire headers not set, which I'm getting for all the PNG files ...
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Google PageSpeed: Generating critical css for css file served from CDN
We were trying to optimise the website using google pagespeed and now having some issue:
We're using nginx_pagespeed module
Trying to enable the prioritize_critical_css filter
Since the CSS files are ...
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Can .htaccess be used to cache AdSense JavaScript to improve the pagespeed score?
I'm AdSense publisher and I need to improve the page speed score for my site. It already gets 90/100 for speed and 100/100 for User Experience, however Google AdSense code is preventing it from ...
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Background Image Loading Optimization for SEO
I am implementing a product image slider for an ecommerce website.
I want to make sure that the page is nice and fast for SEO purposes (as site speed is a factor in ranking). I'm not sure if it ...
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InstantClick effect on SEO?
InstantClick.io is a pretty awesome JS library that makes a website feel a lot faster (in most cases) by prefetching links when a user is hovering above them. This will cut off at least about 100ms ...
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Specifying image dimensions to improve browser performance
I recently ran an audit on my web site using Google Developer Tools. My images are all the same size (500 horizontal by 300 vertical pixels) so I thought it would be better if I left out the image ...
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Google PageSpeed, optimizing Google's own elements
I'm trying Google's PageSpeed online service
Ironically, it's primarily highlighting Google's own services as something that needs improvement on my site
1) jQuery from Google: blocking. So I moved ...
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Joining and compressing all javascript files together - good idea?
Curently, I avoid loading any unnecesary scripts on individual pages of my site. I have a class that remembers all javascript files that were requested during PHP processing and adds them to HTML.
I ...
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mod_pagespeed not compressing images
mod_pagespeed is not compressing images on my homepage.
My current config has:
AddOutputFilterByType MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER text/html
What is the usual setting people use for mod_pagespeed to ...
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Does the JavaScript that Google Analytics Experiments adds slow down alternate versions, and how could I measure this?
I am using Content Experiments in Google Analytics to test three different landing pages. This uses JavaScript on the initial page to load the alternates.
Would the additional JavaScript add to the ...
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Mobile Browsers! Do they ignore `<noscript><img>` (Responsive Design with Framework Zurb Foundation (Interchange/Noscript))
Experimenting with Interchange Responsive Images
I'm experimenting with Interchange by Zurb Foundation to serve various images versions to different devices. For example 200x100 for mobiles, 300x100 ...
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page load wait time on my machine is 55ms but on test websites like pingdom.com it is 1.5 seconds, why would this happen?
When I analyze the website's page load speed in Chrome I can see the wait time (where the return response files of the sever are being generated) is 55ms and total page load time is 1 second or much ...
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Regarding improving site performance
I have an e-commerce website and have close to 9000 products in it with each product having 3 pictures at least. Now my site is loading at an average speed but I want to improve it, as I will be ...
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How to combine GZip + CDN for faster page loads? [duplicate]
I made a Speed Test on my site via online tool. The tool recommended enabling compression to speed up the site. As far as I understand this requires some changes on server (already done by hosting ...
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Google Pagespeed not recognizing minify, cache leveraging, etc
Recently, my sites score completely dropped in site optimization/speed in the Google Adsense rating system. When using Google PageSpeed Insights it tells me quite a few things. One being to leverage ...
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What kind of increase can I expect from improving site speed
I have a pretty slow site. This is what WMT measured:
Now I know speed is a factor in SEO, but considering it is very difficult to make the site faster, I'm trying to evaluate the ROI of this effort. ...
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Is my website is too slow? [closed]
I checked the speed of my website with http://tools.pingdom.com/ .
Results:
Per. Grade = 85/100
Req.s = 18
Load Time = 1.94s
Page Size= 96kb
Is this result is good for my website(also consider SEO)?...
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Google Page Speed's "above the fold" CSS tuning
Putting all 15kb CSS file inline on 100 pages of the site is not smart I think.
How do I pick which CSS classes and IDs from CSS file to put inline (and leave other ones on external CSS file) to a ...
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How can I get my website to enable gzip compression?
I'm currently trying to increase the speed of my website and I noticed that, when I run it through ismyblogworking.com, I get a message that reads "your blog application doesn't support gzip ...
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Site speed: less KB image vs. less HTTP request
I have an interesting problem, I guess...
First of all, I want to use sprites, to reduce the HTTP request on my site. That is because I know it's better for SEO and it makes the site faster, most of ...
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How do I use HTML compression in Jimdo WYSIWYG editor?
I have used Jimdo website to build my website. Using Google PageSpeed Insights tell me that I can achieve better page load speed using HTML compression. I wanted to use deflate.js and inflate.js, but ...
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How do I setup origin domain for Google PageSpeed Service?
I have a WordPress site with cPanel (WHM) with VPS. Today I configured Google PageSpeed Service for my WordPress site. After I submitted my WWW domain, PSS automatically added my naked domain (without ...
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How to measure the file download speed in another country [duplicate]
Now I have a dir with about 5000 files (images) in it and I concerned if this amount will significantly slowdown speed of page load with this images. I'd like to test the load speed of an image from ...
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Leverage browser caching for Facebook, Google+, or other 3rd party resource files
I tested my website with Google PageSpeed Insights.
I did cache optimization in my .htaccess, but it didn't affect resource files that are from Facebook and Google+
Leverage browser caching
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