Different load times with speed test tools

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi @fceriani,
    You asked a very good question why? The short answer is both of them doesn’t show accurate load times. This is why when it comes to speed testing the website the industry standard is WebpageTest.org which will show you the exact time that the browser took to load the page along with many other details. Definitely test there to get accurate data.

    Due to network traffic and server load, the page speed slightly varies always but that is very slight nothing major.

    Thread Starter Fabio C

    (@fceriani)

    Hi @isaumya ,
    thank you for your reply.
    As you suggested, I’ve tested the website with WebpageTest.org, with these results:

    From Milan – Chrome and Firefox: https://ibb.co/YtbBxFm
    From London – Chrome and Firefox: https://ibb.co/DLbVHhh

    Two questions:

    – the numbers of requests varies dependly of the browser used; it is normal?
    – it seems I have a good TTFB, but the total load time is around 3 seconds. Can I improve it tweaking the settings with WP Cloudflare?

    Thanks

    Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    Hi @fceriani,

    the numbers of requests varies dependly of the browser used; it is normal?

    Yes, all modern browsers are super smart and the number of initial requests will depend on many different factors. This is totally normal.

    it seems I have a good TTFB, but the total load time is around 3 seconds. Can I improve it tweaking the settings with WP Cloudflare?

    If you look at the waterfall chart (which you haven’t shared) will give you a much better understanding of the situation. But still looking at the data you have shared, here is my hypothesis:

    1. Your site loading time is slow not because of TTFB but because you have a lot of reader blocking javascript in your website. Who are basically blocking the page rendering until the browser downloaded, parsed and executed all of those javascript.

    2. So, to make your site faster, you need to cut down your javascript. There are a couple more things I can recommend you to try:
    Use the Autoptimize plugin to optimize your CSS & JS files.
    Enable Rocket Loader inside Cloudflare Dashboard and see if your site is still working fine as it should. Now run the tests again.

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