Hello – I’ve been working to improve my Google PageSpeed / GT Metrix scores and I had a couple questions on their suggestions. Here are the two reports that have been run:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.pinkluggageabroad.com/iutRcr0C
1) Both services have advised me to optimize my images by compressing them. I’ve done that and removed the original larger files from my file library, but these images are still showing up on both reports and not improving my score. Here’s an example of an image that I optimized, deleted the original file from my file manager, emptied the trash and is still showing up on both reports: https://www.pinkluggageabroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/list-of-quirky-bars-1.jpg
2) Google PageSpeed suggests: “Consider lazy-loading offscreen and hidden images after all critical resources have finished loading to lower time to interactive”. I understand Newspaper has an option to lazy load all images, is there a way to lazy load just offscreen and hidden images?
3) Google PageSpeed for desktop suggests “Large GIFs are inefficient for delivering animated content. Consider using MPEG4/WebM videos for animations and PNG/WebP for static images instead of GIF to save network bytes”. This applies to these GIFs on my homepage https://www.screencast.com/t/n1vvrlINYN. I converted these to MPEG4 files but when I use TD composer to remove the GIF file and replace it with MPEG4, I cannot choose the MPEG4 file. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a workaround that you can suggest?
4) GT Metrix suggests “Leverage browser caching. Page load times can be significantly improved by asking visitors to save and reuse the files included in your website”. I’m currently using WP Super Cache, is there a setting that I can adjust to meet this suggestion?
5) GT Metrix suggests “2.2MiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. Defer parsing JavaScript to reduce blocking of page rendering”. How would I do this?
6) GT Metrix suggests “The requests for the following URLs don’t fit in a single packet. Reducing the size of these requests could reduce latency” but when I click on those URLs, they bring me to a blank page – https://www.youtube.com/api/stats/playback?ns=yt&el=embedded&cpn=wOWKLXK0prCQLirl&docid=kO__C5pOyQo&ver=2&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FkO__C5pOyQo%3Fautoplay%3D1%26loop%3D1%26mute%3D1%26showinfo%3D0%26controls%3D0%26start%3D2%26playlist%3DkO__C5pOyQo%26amp%3Bt%3D25s%26&cmt=0.797&ei=k1fRXc2XFIHmkgaf7I-gCA&fmt=244&fs=0&rt=0.448&of=GC6OCn1lTVgpgJyrp2hYjw&euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinkluggageabroad.com%2F&lact=15508&cl=280776138&mos=1&vm=CAEQABgEKiBKVmpsYXZfam82S0FEVWM4VUZzMThaRHE5dFpoWUdQVg&volume=100&c=WEB_EMBEDDED_PLAYER&cver=20191113&cplayer=UNIPLAYER&cbr=Chrome&cbrver=75.0.3770.100&cos=X11&autonav=1&autoplay=1&delay=4&hl=en_US&cr=US&len=110.321&fexp=23744176%2C23748146%2C23768780%2C23804281%2C23837040%2C23837772%2C23837993%2C23839361%2C23839597%2C23842630%2C23842986%2C23844999%2C23846545%2C23847168%2C23848795%2C23848871%2C23851771%2C23856652%2C23856867%2C23857013%2C23857013%2C23857493%2C23857850%2C23857850%2C23857949%2C23858319%2C23859128%2C23859212%2C23859427%2C23859929%2C24630404%2C9449243&rtn=6&feature=playlist&afmt=250&size=768%3A1365&inview=0.76 has a request size of 2.6KiB
Request URL: 1.1KiB
Cookies: 54B
Referer Url: 128B
Other: 1.4KiB
Thank you for your help.
Hello,
The speed of your website depends on how well your site is optimized, if you follow the steps which are presented in this tutorial here -> https://tagdiv.com/how-to-increase-page-loading-speed/ you’ll be able to increase the speed of your website.
Also you can check this similar topic for more solutions: -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/optimize-script-to-improve-site-speed/
Also we do offer page speed services over a fee, if you want us to increase your page speed you can check our custom services from here -> https://tagdiv.com/premium-customization-services/
Thank you for your understanding!
