Google's page speed is telling me to optimize my CSS delivery for the following and I am confused.
http://*******.***/css/styles.css
https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/…t-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
https://fonts.googleapis.com/…ntserrat|Montserrat+Alternates|Open+Sans
The first one is my own css, the others are via some CDN systems. I thought using cdn for font awesome would be better than hosting it myself, and same for google fonts.
As for my own css how can I do any better than hosting it as a separate file? It is already minimized. Wouldn't it be worse to inline the whole css file for every page view?
The answers given here (Css optimization for google pagespeed insight) seems like a hack to trick the pagespeed insights.
What advice can you give me or insight to understanding what they mean would be appreciated.
Yes it'd be worse to go inline with your css as it cannot be cached. The whole point of CDN is that as many people uses them (google ones at least) it's high likely users will have them precached, hence better than hosting them at your server unrecognized by the url on the new http request.
Also I'm not sure why the SSL would matter but from your example, your server is the only one without the certificate.
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I have a wordpress website, it performance is poor according to PageSpeed Insights. Please help me with it.
I have used plugins like Autotimize but it didn't help either.
I'm looking at your HTML code and have the following advice you can start with that will net you big improvements:
Combine and minify CSS and JS resources
Minify your HTML and enable gzip to serve pages
Use HTTP2
Defer or Async JS
Optimize images; Consider responsive images; Consider using webp format
Consider using a CDN to serve resources
Appears that you're also pulling in many third-party scripts including an advertising platform. Ad services rarely care how well your site scores in tests and are not terribly inclined to serve up content quickly. Including them will always impact performance negatively.
Also, you'll never score 100 with a Wordpress website on Google metrics. Anything over 90 should be consider a success. I've been optimizing websites for marketing purposes for many years and have never gotten to 100. 99. But not 100.
Here is the gtmetrix scan report. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/academy.evox.cc/VGQxiCOr/
This is advice to use a CDN. It is not an error, not at all. Your WordPress instance is in good shape.
Content Delivery Networks make your website faster for your visitors in various places around the world, by caching your html, javascript, stylesheet, and image files locally in various data centers.
GTMetrix explains their advice here.
Unless your users complain that your site is slow, or unless your site risks being hit with a denial-of-service attach by cybercreeps, you need not act on this advice right away.
I did all the things Like image optimization, rendering for page speed optimization. I checked my mobile page speed increasing but desktop page speed not increasing it's still 22 again and again. I want to know why I am facing this problem. My website is www.sagorkhan.com. Can anyone please help me?
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There are many factors that could affect your page speed and actually I see you've done a good job so far but you may go a litter farther.
I've tested your site with google page speed, pingdom tool, gtmetrix, webpagetest and here is my conclusion:
I guess your problem is about how to reduce server response time. While testing your site, it took more than 3+ seconds (6 on webpagetest) to completely load which may be considered a huge time. Reduce the server response time is not an easy task and could be a real challenge but here is a few tips:
1. Images optimization:
You said that you've done image optimization but still, your site have some huge images, one of them for example, is about 1MB which is can really affect the server response time. These images can be easily optimized, just go to google page speed and after you test your site scroll down and find: Download optimized image, JavaScript, and CSS resources for this page. Download the zip file and try to replace the old images with optimized ones using any FTP client, FileZilla is more then good for that.
Note that you can find the images locations under Optimize images section in case you don't know the location. Repeat that step again to make sure all your images are optimized.
Also I'd recommend some plugins like wp-smushit for optimize and compress all of your images and Regenerate Thumbnails to fix Serve scaled images issue. tinypng is good online alternative too if you like to do it manually.
2. Optimize CSS Delivery
That's not easy actually because it may requires to optimize the code and structure of your theme but you can give Autoptimize or W3 Total cache a try. Both support combining and minifying all enqueued JS, and CSS files.
3. CDNs:
CDN can really accelerate your site and greatly reducing your page loading time. Now, there are tons of good CDNs providers but I would recommend CloudFlare as a start since its free and easy to use and their free plan is enough and does work really great.
4. Caching
WordPress caching is a must if you care about performance, I don't see any sign of caching plugins except your HTML, JavaScript, css files is minified already which is good but not enough. I would recommend W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache.
5. Web Hosting
If you're hosing your site in a shared host, don't hope too much to get perfect page speed even if you done all the required optimization. I'd definitely recommend upgrading to a VPS since its kinda cheap (unmanaged servers can be cheaper then shared host) and not that hard to setup and secure, A small VPS server can have a significant impact on page load speed.
You are resizing massive images using HTML/CSS when you should be resizing them individually using Photoshop or a similar image editing tool. You have a lot of render blocking js, specifically they're the YouTube scripts you're running.
Another big issue is the sheer amount of stylesheet and js files you're loading -- 19 js and 13 css. Try combining your js files together as much as you can, as well as your css files ... you're going to want to minify them as well.
You're loading many components from various sources, adding more http request overhead. If it's possible, you should consider hosting your own copies of some files.
Take a look at the output from https://gtmetrix.com/reports/sagorkhan.com/cBTMzOjD ... that should get you on the road to optimizing. Make sure you take your time reading the pagespeed and yslow tabs.
We purchased a WP theme and did some customized changes in php and html
to bring the design where we wanted...
We are almost done with the design of the website and construction
and we are about to deliver to client
but for some reason the website is responding very slow on the first visitor..
and we cannot find the problem, what conflicts with what..
Are there any WP experts in here that could have a look and maybe identify the problem..?
Thank you in advance..
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Enable gzip compression
Leverage browser caching
Optimize images
Defer parsing of JavaScript
Minify CSS, JS
Analyze your site using GTmetrix and Google PageSpeed Insight, and follow the recommendations that you get from this systems.
It's not that slow? I can get a directory listing from your wp-includes directory just fine. Joking aside, looks like there are two different versions of jquery being loaded in, that's never good for things (view source, line:435) and the homepage makes about 179 requests which is a bit bonkers.
Try a caching plugin. As others have said better configured hosting helps, especially those that use caching technologies such as varnish/redis. A CDN will help with geographic speed. Compress images with WP Smush or similar. Good luck!
There could be multiple issues behind a slow wp website:
Using multiple plugins can slow down a wp website.
A poor web server that is not able to respond quickly.
Some configuration issues.
What i can see is that your website is resource intensive, CSS and JS script files are too heavy, even heavier than all images on the home page.
Try:
Minify the css and js files.
Compress images and the size would come down to less than 1 mb (use tinypng.com)
Use Google page speed to see the flow of the resources of your website and other related details.
Hope this helps.
How toeliminate render-blocking javascript and CSS in above-the-fold content in wordpress. If any one can please help me.
Looks like there is a wordpress plugin called autoptimize that will do a lot of the work for you. I believe it also enables compression. Once you install the plugin, navigate to settings => autoptimize and check optimize CSS code as well as optimize JavaScript code.
I woudn't use a plugin.
First of all merge CSS files into one file.
Next use https://jonassebastianohlsson.com/criticalpathcssgenerator/ .
You'll get some css code - insert it inline in header.
Then you can load rest of the CSS via JS ( https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS ).
Many ways. The ways to pass over 85/100 are -
You can use Pagespeed module
Use a third party service to deliver optimised frontend. Google had such service which is closed now.
Or follow traditional way of backend optimisation.
Nowadays, good websites pass through another service or another server as reverse proxy which automatically optimises the frontend. Thats it.
Traditional way :
That is one server one website and tweak on main server.
Your server's response time higher is most important. First pass it. Test on webpagetest.org.
Then give priority to visible content.
Then leverage cache.
Render blocking matter is after making them great.
Those optimisations are after you have passed server security, time to first byte, uptime etc. There is no plugin that can make 100% perfect with few clicks for all sites.
You should read (see WordPress doc) and load scripts asynchronously on footer or body via plugins like Header and Footer and ask on WordPress forum when you face difficult. Many times many technology websites discussed it in details. There are really very good old blog websites like CSS Tricks. You should find all articles on the topic and read from old to new. It is impossible to give an easy way. Loading Js is more complicated browser, device matter. Furthermore there is W3TC like cache plugin on normal websites.
Known problems of traditional way :
It is not odd to open up a security flaw with some snippets. With HTTP/2 push, many new things, recent security matters of WordPress during February forcing not to talk about odd plugin and snippets. None really can perform security audit. That is why I talked about it 2 years back about render-blocking javascript and CSS, not later . There I have shown settings of WordPress free Async js and css plugin. That WordPress plugin gives options for CSS, JS getting automatically loaded as inline or load asynchronously. You can try. Inline, Async all has own demerit.
It is technically difficult work than the plugins descriptions will say. Such plugins decrease the manual work but does not eliminate the need of hand coding, trial. It is part of page speed optimisation. You have to slowly learn yourself and plan according to budget.
Do at own risk at dev site with A+ score on SSL labs, add various security headers.
As you possibly a commercial website security is of more importance, followed by page loading speed.
As end tip, you should arrange to host on unmanaged server to optimise the backend. Your site is slower at present which is problem out of host.