Hello,
I am struggling to raise my page speed score on Google.
When testing my site at the page speed insight tool I get 80 on desktop and 49 on mobile.
I have read the speed guide and everything in your knowledge database, but can’t get a page speed above 80. I would really like to have more than 85 at least.
Somehow I have a lot of rendering blocking css files. How can I get rid of them?
Also I am using the Font “Lato” instead of Roboto Condensed, but my website is still fetching Roboto Condensed…
Thanks for your feedback!
Render blocking is the LAST to do item; everything ELSE should be addressed first.
Try checking your site with GTmetrix.com as it will provide more useful info on what to fix and how.
Be sure to review my sticky post on optimization tips 🙂
Okay thank you!
I have implemented everything in your optimization post now.
I have also minified the css files. Now my page speed is 82, but I guess Google Adsense is causing a lot most of the problems in terms of page speed.
Two questions: How can I minify the HTML and compress this image images/icons/newsmag.svg?
I would also like to exchange Roboto Condensed to the font I am using, Lato. I don’t want the theme to fetch Roboto Condensed from fonts.googleapis.com.
Thanks for the feedback!
Also note you should be doing a speed test on one of your posts and *not* your home page. That will always get lower score since it has 10x the pix of a normal “post.”
To get rid of Roboto you actually need to edit one of the functions files for the theme. I need to do a tutorial on that, but have not had the time.
Basically it’s the file I had to edit to fix a bug with https in v1.5 of theme — if you can find THAT post I was doing about https and Roboto in forum, that showed the file and the section with roboto you would need to change or comment out.
(or wait for tagdiv support tomorrow … ) 🙂
Check this:
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.designworld.se/mzubypYr
Also, try setting the thumbnail compression level to as low as 45 in your functions.php file and then regenerate all plugins to get that extra annoying 1-2% they bug you about. 🙂
And yes, you can’t do much about Akamai, google, facebook stuff being loaded externally.
Okay I will look into that!
Thank you Chris!
