Want to see what google thinks about your website?

Here is a great resource to see what google thinks about your website.
It also gives advice on how to make it better.

Drop in your website url see how it ranks!
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

I was hoping that if I just ignore the problem it will go away.

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Pagespeed insights is actually outdated.

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It sucks too. You can’t get 100 without custom code to locally store/check for updates/manage THEIR STUPID JAVASCRIPT!!

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@SqueegeeNinjaNJ What would you recommend for testing website performance?

Moz.com has some goos tools.

Pagespeed will give you enough information.

If you’re going to design something like amazon or mtv or espn where you have to manage millions of hits per hour, then you’ll need to look at more tools (pagespeed is still important because it’s The Tool of The Google). Their test just sucks because unless you’re going to do some custom coding, you’re not going to get 100.

But if you get into the 70’s +, it’s good enough for most websites.

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This is what I use for a good benchmark. Although it does still rely on some outdated sourced that link to pagespeed inights (i.e. no render blocking JS above the fold, parallelizing hostnames, etc), its a much better gauge as to what it happening on your site and what could be slowing it down.

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That is a good one! Very helpful resource (Pingdom)

When they talk about Javascript being rendered above the fold what that means in plain english is that it is better to load HTML first so the page will render(show) . Then load the javascript .

If the call to load the Javascript especially jQuery is in the head section, being called before HTML and CSS it slows the page down so you normally can just put the script tags at the end of the body that are not need until the page is acted upon.

For you Wordpress guys there are settings that can change how Javascript is loaded.

Something else you can do is before you upload an image to your site is to compress it ,and make the proper size for where it is being displayed.
It’s real easy to just go to https://tinypng.com/ and compress them before uploading it’s free.

There are plugins that do this. (But how many plugins does one really need)
But if you take a look at the results and if there are javascript issues a lot of the time these javascript files are coming from plugins, that why it is important to only use the ones you really need.

I hope this is helpful

And let me make this Very Clear I have no intention of ever offering anything for sale on this board I took down the tools and websites I had for sale and from the comments this board I am sorry I offered what I thought might be helpful my bad!

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Great point Jared it doesn’t really mater what you use to measure performance . The idea is just to see where you are at. Like I mentioned above there are some easy fixes. Keep in mind using to many plugins can add unnecessary javascript that slows your page down.

SEO salesman lol

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@SqueegeeNinjaNJ I Never offered to sell you any SEO and never will was just trying to be helpful.

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Oh, it will. Mine has lol.

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