I am totally lost, please help

Please note I had to disable the plugin, after disabling minimize my site did not go back to normal and only disabling the plugin helped. I really hope you can help me.

Hi there,

I’m sorry to hear about the trouble you’re having with your site speed. Let’s break it down and see if we can get things running smoothly.

Several factors can affect your PageSpeed scores, such as server performance, caching issues, third-party scripts, and network conditions. These can all cause your scores to fluctuate.

To stabilize your site speed on both desktop and mobile, here are a few steps you can take. First, optimize your images using WP-Optimize. You can enable automatic compression for new images by going to WP-Optimize > Images and turning on “Automatically compress newly-added images.”

For existing images, go to WP-Optimize > Images, find “Uncompressed images,” select them, and press “Compress the selected images.”

Next, enable caching to speed up your site. Go to WP-Optimize > Cache and enable the caching option.

Be careful with minification, as it might break your theme. You can test this by going to WP-Optimize > Minify, enabling CSS and JS minification, and checking if your site works fine. If minify breaks your theme, we can exclude specific CSS/JS files causing issues and test in stages by minifying CSS and JS separately.

The flashing or changing of styling might be due to how fonts and styles are loaded. To fix this, preload fonts to ensure they load faster, use font-display: swap in your CSS to keep text visible during font load, and combine and minify CSS to ensure critical CSS loads first and non-critical CSS loads asynchronously.

Let’s start with these steps. After you’ve optimized images, enabled caching, and tested minify settings, run a PageSpeed Insights test on both desktop and mobile and analyzing the results.

Give these steps a try and let me know how it goes. Specifically, did image compression improve your site speed? Was there any improvement in the PageSpeed scores? Did enabling caching make a difference? Did minifying CSS and JS cause any layout issues?

Once you’ve completed these steps, share your results with me, and we can dive into more detailed optimization or code adjustments if needed.

Looking forward to your update!

Hi there,

I think the issue is fixed. I had various plugins installed to test optimization, apparantly there was some plugins interferring with eachother, even though i disabled them they still did something apparantly. I now disabled + deleted all plugins and cleared my cache and re-installed WP-Optimize and now the issue seems over. The results are stable but aren’t great (mobile only 40 and desktop 77)

• Can you check my website and see if you think it is rendering okay? i dont get the flashing anymore and my site loads normally, every component and styling and font works good, can you check if that is the same on your end?
• Do you have any tips to improve my speed further? Especially mobile?

Thanks in advance!

I’m glad to hear that the issue seems to be fixed! I checked your website, and everything is working great on my end too ??. The site loads normally, all components, styling, and fonts are rendering perfectly without any flashing.

For further improvement, especially on mobile, consider using a CDN like Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, or KeyCDN to reduce load times. Ensure your server is optimized by using the latest PHP version, optimizing your database, and choosing a reliable hosting provider. Enable browser caching to speed up return visits, reduce HTTP requests by combining CSS and JavaScript files, and optimize images by using JPEG or PNG formats and next-gen formats like WebP. Lastly, defer non-critical JavaScript to improve load times. Give these tips a try and see how they improve your site’s performance.

Thanks for the help. I guess I will have to try some other stuff as well. I already have everything enabled for this plugin.

You’re welcome! I’m glad I could help : )