Page Speed low – Image optimization?

  • Hi everyone.

    I am building a little website and it is almost done.
    Yesterday I decided to do a little analysis about SEO and page Speed, and I got a little surprised. The main conclusion was that my site was too slow.
    I assume that having a shared hosting service, which was the cheapest one, doesn′t help. In that aspect, I can′t do anything (I also have http 500 error sometimes, which I presume that happens for the same reason).
    BUT, I analyzed the site with PageSpeed from Google developers and, among other suggestions, it said that I should optimize the images.
    So, lets get to the point. I have been very careful in no exceeding very much with the image weight and dimensions. I have edited all the images with photoshop: always saving the image in 72ppp, using the resolution that will be displayed on the website and uploading JPEG images. Anyway, pagespeed says I can optimize my images…

    Any advice, please? How can I make my site faster?
    Thanks!

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Can you link us to your website?

    Thread Starter blueberry2

    (@blueberry2)

    Hi Andrew.

    Sure, but it is on maintenance mode right now, so I don′t know if it would help…
    Anyway it is https://www.spanishwineweek.ie

    Thank you!

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    The server took 3.5 seconds to load that maintenance page. The resources on that page took .5 seconds. I think that’s a good demonstration of the issue with your hosting service.

    Thread Starter blueberry2

    (@blueberry2)

    So, the problem is the server as I thought right? I knew that a cheap hosting plan would give me this kind of problems but anyway I want to maximize page speed as much as I can.
    If you wish, I will quit maintenance mode for the next half an hour, so that you can take a look if you want to ??

    Thank you for the fast reply!

    If you get http 500 error it might be that problem is your hosting. But… Regarding big images the site also can be slow. There are a lot of tools to compress images (for example https://cheetaho.com). But if you compressed images and google speedinsight still says that you need to compress images you need to check images resolutions you are using in your website. For example if your images container in website is 80x100px you can not use bigger images in this place. If you will add in this container image 200x400px, google will say that you need to optimize your images.
    Hope you understood mine mind and this will help you.
    Cheers!

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