Test results not all good

To be honest; I don’t really care about performance grades, the only thing that _really_ counts is load times, the grades are just there to “gamify” web performance to get people to care about performance.

However; I did have a quick look at the 2 screenshots and apart from the “remove query strings”-remark (which you can help by not loading images from local cache) nothing in the worse score has anything to do with LYTE actually. the Google Fonts CSS & font-files for example, are not in any way related to what AO does and the fact that they are singled out only shows that performance score applications are black boxes that have only very limited value ??

But don’t believe me; here are some links that explain the relative importance of scores vs the importance (also on ranking) of load time:

https://wp-rocket.me/blog/the-truth-about-google-pagespeed-insights/
https://gtmetrix.com/blog/pagespeed-and-yslow-are-half-the-battle/
https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-speed-impact-rankings/
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-page-speed-affects-search-engine-rank-and-what-you-can-do-about-it
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/page-load-time-conversion-rates

Happy optimizing! ??

frank

Actually I don’t care about these test grades either. I just thought there might be some conflicts resulting the use of the plugin. And by resolving these conflicts, the pageload could be even better. Because as stated without the plugin, these things aren’t shown in the test results.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Joehann.

Because as stated without the plugin, these things aren’t shown in the test results.

confirming the minor importance of said test grades :-p