Bulk results returning different results

  • Hi Matt, thanks for making this plugin, it’s very helpful.

    One issue I’ve just flagged is that the bulk scans are returning different results than when I run the tool per page (and via the official website).

    I think this is because I have Nitropack installed and perhaps the bulk tool is doing the scan with caching disabled, while the per-page scans have caching enabled.

    I tried throttling the scan by 1 second thinking that would have helped, but no luck. I only get the correct score when doing the per-page scan vs. bulk scan.

    Is there any way to get the bulk scan to run the scans the same way as it does per-page so the caching will be enabled and the performance scores are reported correctly, please?

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  • Plugin Author Matt Keys

    (@mattkeys)

    Hey James,

    Whether it is a single page scan, or a bulk scan, the same API request is sent to Google Pagespeed. The only difference is that one is being done ‘one after another’. The throttling you mentioned was put in place to try to allow low performing hosting providers extra time to increase result accuracy.

    I can only guess that your host is not responding well to the repeated traffic for one reason or another. This is only a guess but maybe your hosting provider has some kind of DDoS protection that is getting a false-positive from the scans?

    When you compare the two scans are you able to identify which things are different between the two that are causing the lower score?

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