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slow website even with good google pagespeed scores
3 replies · Started by John on March 23, 2021
Does some one know how i can get a faster website, i can get google pagespeed high but my website loads like 2x slower than a lot of other websites with a lot worse scores in google pagespeed.
I currently de activated a caching plugin i use to show some bad pagespeed scores. Because when i activate the plugin i get 100-100 with no suggestions but my website will still be a bit slow.
The 2 top photos are mobiel and desktop without the plugin activated and the bottom photo's is with plugin activated and on mobile. It is in dutch so maybe you have to put it in pagespeed yourself to check in english i currently de activated the plugin.
The feel of the pagespeed doesnt change a lot with or without the plugin on but the scores change drastically
Hi there,
few issues:
You have a slow Initial Server response and not all content is GZIP compressed. Both of these are something your host should be able to help with.
But the main issue is the size of the site - its over 3mb in size and makes over 70 requests. If you right click and inspect the site to open the developers tools, and go to the Network tab - then clear the cache and reload with the dev tools open you will be able to see the main requests... heres an image of them sorted by file size and shows ONLY the requests over 50kb:
https://www.screencast.com/t/SUBTBFgSug1
First in the list are a number of fonts that are generating 404 errors - which should be removed. They are being requested by some CSS you have in Customizer > Additional CSS.
Then the first largest file is the JS that is being loaded by Essential Add-ons for Elementor - which is shocking at over 300kb in size... might be best to speak with the plugin developer or look for an alternative.
After that you just need to pick through the largest requests - some points:
1. Theres a couple of images that could be smaller in size.
2. You have a large number of font requests - if you can reduce the number of fonts the better.
3. Icons - you're loading a couple of icon libraries for probably just a few Icons including Happy Icons which is coming from another Elemetnor Addon and on Font Awesome - look to see if you can replace them with SVGs.
Wow kay thanks this is really helpful! Too bad essential addons is so bad then. Just bought it, i guess i should swap to another one, although il have to look how heavy those are.
How do you see which is essential addons and which is another one
BTW i do get like 100-100 score when i use nitropack, but i guess is till have some work to do.
Ps. now my website seems like 2x as fast than this morning. Maybe because the service provider now is better. But i guess il still fix these issues.
In the Network tab if you hover over a request name you will see a tooltip that shows where the request comes from ... or you can click on the request and in the panel to the side you can select the Headers tab which will show you this info.
Sounds good :)
