Speeding up site

  • Hi all,

    I’ve been trying very hard to make this website faster. Faster for the visitor and faster for Google Pagespeed Insight.

    But I’m still not very happy with my pagespeed. Google pagespeed gives me a 90% A score on GTMetrix. Google page speed gives 74 on desktop and only 16 on mobile. It says:

    – Reduce server response times (TTFB) 1.68 s
    – Serve images in next-gen formats 0.24 s

    On the images I’m working, I’ve been trying it with some plugins but these pictures were not converted I guess. So we will manage them by hand.

    But then we have the TTFB which is very long I think. But I don’t know how they measure it; we don’t use a CDN because our site is mainly visited by customer from the Netherlands, where our site is hosted too. But I want to do ‘more’ to achieve a fast site, but I really don’t know what I can do. Maybe it’s high because of that Google measures from America?

    I’ve done:
    – Use plugin ‘EWWW Image Optimizer’ for beteer image compression
    – Installing and configuring W3 Total cache. But I’ve disabled it now, because of that it dramatically dropped my scores on pagespeed in Google pagespeed…. I can’t understand this…
    – Installed and configured autoptimze for optimizing CSS/JS and lazyloading of images and so on.

    Is there anyone with some tips about what I can do more and about the (in my opinion) real high score on TTFB?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I honestly don’t know what else to suggest.

    I can’t tell you how to simulate the 500 error, because I don’t know what’s causing it, all I know is I see this:

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N9DifeSlNGYUFTZtjsnda9BgciBq60MP

    when simply visiting various pages on your site with Chrome, but not every page every time. With Safari I just get a blank white page, so no screen shot there. Refreshing does load the page, sometimes revisiting the same page gives the error, but oftentimes not. Anders ziet uw site er erg mooi uit en wordt deze meestal goed geladen. ?? (sorry, Dutch is my second language)

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Sean.
    Thread Starter MiKeZZa

    (@mikezza)

    Strange… I’ve never experienced this and can’t reproduce this….

    Bedankt ??

    It is strange, yet another digital anomaly I can’t explain. It could be my browser, my 9 year old computer, or my lousy Belgian internet connection…( I am Belgian, so I can say that ?? )

    Like I say, your site looks and loads fine, 99.99% of the time, so I wouldn’t worry too much about any of this. I also wouldn’t worry about how it loads in say Australia, because I don’t think any viewers there would be interested in what the site sells. As long as it loads like it does in The Netherlands and maybe Flemish Belgium I think you’ll be good.

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