mikegamble

Do you recommend a specific tool that would allow me to discover (and fix) if one of my stylesheets has a parsing error.

When I deactivate the “Load external files” option in the “Leverage browser caching” and delete the 2500 files (121M) in the “s” directory, I lose many of my site’s images and all CSS styling for 2-3 hours, and my site speed increases by 25%.

A month ago, my PageSpeed.ninja mobile score was 99 and my desktop speed was 95-97 for https://ouragingparents.net/. Now my mobile score using Google’s PageSpeed Insights for the same page is 69 and my desktop speed is 89. (A month ago, my scores using Google’s PageSpeed Insights were very close to my PageSpeed.ninja scores.) I’ve experimented with several different settings for PageSpeed.ninja, but nothing brings me very close to what I had about a month ago.

Also, when I use Google’s PageSpeed Insights to check one of my internal pages (https://ouragingparents.net/chaos-confidence/) my scores are very low (mobile = 51 and desktop = 83).

What am I doing wrong? What suggestions do you have for improving my scores?

Thanks very much for your advice.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by mikegamble.

Another PageSpeed Ninja user (Jakub Zieliński) stated on Facebook, “Hey, I really love PageSpeed Ninja, but I don’t understand one thing. I applied all settings. My homepage pagespeed is now 91 (before it was 55). When I try to test post pages, pagespeed is still about 50-60. Can somebody help me?.”

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by mikegamble.

I’ve found a huge problem with my site’s internal posts.

My homepage speed using PageSpeedNinja is 99 for mobile and 99 for desktop. This is confirmed by using Google’s Page Speed Insights (100 for mobile and 99 for desktop). That’s fantastic!

However, when I test an internal post, my results are dramatically different (PageSpeedNinja is 78 for mobile and 92 for desktop) and (Google’s Page Speed Insights is 57 for mobile and 85 for desktop).

What’s happening?

Thanks in advance for your help!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by mikegamble.

I just ran some more tests using Windows 10, Chrome and Firefox, with the same result, even after removing all references to Google fonts from my style.css file and my header file. Specifically,

1. After removing all references to Google Fonts, my site will load the fallback default font (Proxima Nova) after about one second. But during the first second, my site loads completely unstyled content.

2. The Google Raleway font will not load even after I add back the Google font info to my header and stylesheet. Instead, I get the same unstyled content that I described in #1 above.

I hope that you’ll be able to fix the problems soon. Aside from these problems, I love your plug-in.

I’ve just installed the latest Firefox browser. Just like Chrome, PageSpeed Ninja still does not pull Google fonts.

Despite your recent updates to version 0.9.15, I still have the same problems I described 2 weeks ago in the above comments. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mike Gamble

Also, when I activate CSS minifying, my site’s pages display unstyled content for about one second before CSS styling takes effect. Again, I used only Chrome for my tests.

The problem largely disappears when I deactivate the WooCommerce plug-in.

Aside from these two issues, I love your plug-in.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by mikegamble.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by mikegamble.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by mikegamble.

I’ve had the same problem re loading Google fonts using Chrome (I haven’t tested other browsers.).