Is there some simple things I can do to further speed up my site?
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yes.education%2F
I am only using sites.google.com and I have an analytics tag on the website. I also had my images optimized on the home page to a very low size, so I am puzzled that google would penalize me for using their own products.
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I've spent quite a bit of time on performance optimization for my site and I'm right there at the finish line for getting all the green good scores in search console for mobile usability and core web vitals. The last outstanding thing is getting my LCP under 2.5 seconds for my blog posts.
I'm consistently getting 2.6-2.7 and I can't quite figure out why. The LCP element is the <h1> tag on my blog posts and there are no above-the-fold images.
Example URL With Higher LCP
Let me say that I am using a Beaver Builder website and some marketing tags like GA, GTM, etc but I've spent a lot of time analyzing my script and style loads to create an optimal experience with preconnects and preloads of various resources. I know it's a big ask to try to get a site like this down in load time. I'm on Kinsta hosting with low TTFB, full-page caching and CDN. I am also using the Perfmatters plugin to control various aspects of load times.
I've done everything I can think of to get the LCP down and it seems like the <H1> tag is visible almost immediately but then may be repainted later towards the end of the page load, but I can't figure out the cause of this.
Anyone out there feeling generous that could take a look?
Page Speed Insights URL
as i can see Pagespeed is showing aggregated real user experience of your entire domain, not of this specific pages but for all pages on this domain.
DOM content load time for your page on mobile is around 3sec, that means your LCP has to be greater than this
You need to reduce your DOM content load time first. You need to prioritize your network calls such that redundant dependency needs to be minimized
And also for desktop page, you are lazy loading first fold image which is not considered as a good user experience and might be contributing to LCP for desktop version of your page, also impact negatively for your SEO
There are many tools to measure page load speed GT Metrix, Pingdom, WebPageTest and all of Google's tools.
However these all measure the page load speed of a single page in isolation. How do I measure the page to page speed of a site?
Well, each tool is accurate on its own way.
For example Pingdom / GTMetrix allows you to measure the speed of your website when using a Computer with leased internet line.
If you want to measure the speed of your whole website, you need to categorize your pages using templates and then calculate yourself the amount of time between First Byte Received + DomContentLoaded.
Then as soon as this is ready you need to send it towards an analytics tool (maybe Google Analytics) and measure it out of your user experience.
I need help to optimize my website ggsel.com. I use counters of google analytics and Yandex Metrica. If I drop these counters then I get very good results by page speed, but if I put these counters in my page result is bad.
I attached screenshots from page speed to this post. Please tell me, how to save these counters and getting the best result from page speed. And maybe can you give me some advice for me. How I can better FID and FCP for my site?
with metrica and analytics
without
One month ago on web site, www.cashflowtallinn.ee I noticed an issue related to Google Analytics, which is representing as large amount (over 80% of our traffic) viewed by Google as (not set).
This is causing different issues, such as:
If we want to see what pages users mostly visit, biggest percentage is (not set)
If we want to see default languages, biggest percentage is (not set)
If we want to see traffic sources, mostly it's viewed as Direct traffic, but this is not true, since most of our traffic is Social networks.
I tried to resolve issue:
Installed Google Tag Assistant, but it reports all is good.
Examined <head> section and found out that web site has several <title> instances, could this cause issues?
Found this from Google Support https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2820717?hl=en
Fount this, but couldn't find solution http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2015/06/25/11-places-google-analytics-not-set/
Any ideas how to handle this (and issues like this one) ?
There is always a possibility to turn of all plugins and switch back to default theme (since it's WordPress web site), but I would like to test this on live site, and make it work live, so switching off plugins and changing theme is actually not a good idea.
All best,
I noticed your GA code is outside of head tag.
I'd consider fixing the location GA code (inside head tag)
you have 2 same GA codes installed (bad practice)
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I understand that average page load speeds recorder by google analytics will differ from speeds recorded on my machine with firebug, that's pretty obvious. It's an average of page loads on different machines, browsers and broadband speeds
However, how come google report would show that homepage takes longer to load than product page where in firebug is the opposite?
What's your thoughts on monitoring web sites speeds in general using one of those (or both) tools?
You need to ignore the average in Google Analytics and look at the histograms in Content > Site Speed > Page Timings > Performance Tab
Then explore how and why the timing varies