Hi guys,
I currently have 90 for my desktop site and 75 for mobile (http://bit.ly/1tKOeYu). I have minified all of the theme files and did everything to speed up the site. But, as I use AdSense and Google Analytic, the speed is a bit slow. For example, as you can see on the screenshot bellow, Google is asking me to Leverage Browser Caching for this URL: http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js and other URLs.
But as I don’t have access to the files, I can’t do anything to them. 🙁 So, how am I meant to modify them to make the site faster? The same thing is happening on the Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content section where Google asks me to Optimize CSS Delivery for one of their Google Fonts. And Minify JS for their Google AdSense script.
Please help.
Thanks!
Hi, Mehidi
I just posted a comment about this on another post which I’ll repeat here as my empirical wisdom on the topic of suffering Google issues the past 20 years. 🙂
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Christopher Simmons
August 27, 2014 at 8:50 pm #19552
As you may know from my own prior posts in the pagespeed topic, you may find it more helpful to test for speed with stuff like adsense, external things like addthis/sharethis or shareaholic, disqus, turned OFF, as there is not much you can do about those elements for speed beyond async loading. This gives you what I call your “raw score” which is better to see what your work on optimization actually does.
The “theory” in the webdev industry is that if you get your raw score taken care of, then when you switch back on the googleverse stuff which invariably shows problems with their own systems vis a vis pagespeed, you can presume Google “subtracts” their own content from the “functional score” … in using speed as a “signal” for ranking, beyond user experience.
Just for those pulling their hair out on this topic (been there!) 🙂
My other advice: don’t eat toast around your keyboard, unless you want to keep a key puller, alcohol, swabs, and a can of compressed air handy!!
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For Google fonts; use my trick mentioned elsewhere …
1) grab the CSS from google which is being loaded from your functions.php for the fonts you’re using;
2) paste the css into bottom of your style.css file, so you’re loading the CSS in your own file and not loading externally — does 2 things, removes the css loading from their server with the funky expiration, versioning, etc., and reduces external load by one file!
Hey guys,
Just wanted to let you know that I got 96 on desktop and 91 on mobile now 🙂 I am so happy! Thank you Christopher, Shashank and Steven for the tips on the forum 😉
I’m assuming you figured out solution for the gravatar/author photo? And presumably the web safe fonts, and scaling back some of the pix on page perhaps?
Curious what you did for author photo.
