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What's Your Mobile Page Speed? It's Now Becoming an Official Google Ranking Factor

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#41
We use a bit of everything.
They all have pros and cons, but lighthouse has been pretty cool so far.

I'm working on something using GhostInspector and Puppeteer that does some custom tests that are more "real life" tests.
Google Page Speed Insights are garbage - they yell about things that aren't relevant to customers (along with some relevant items).
If I'm doing speed tests, I use https://tools.pingdom.com because it's free for multiple tests and it breaks the actual page speed down to each component, first pixel, etc.

If I need to shut someone up, I use https://www.dareboost.com/en/compare to prove that their website loads faster than their competition :D
 
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Dang!!!!!!! This crap is frustrating!!!!
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I mean... What am I suppose to do to optimize the site when it's mainly the site providers big ass files that are slowing the MoFo down??? Lighthouse is saying there are two versions of JQuery (Both with vulnerabilities) that are throwing red flags. Then I have tier two's sloppy scripts and tracking pixels that have issues as well. Here's a snapshop of some of the crap I'm trying to tweak!

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craigh said:
We use a bit of everything.
They all have pros and cons, but lighthouse has been pretty cool so far.

I'm working on something using GhostInspector and Puppeteer that does some custom tests that are more "real life" tests.
Google Page Speed Insights are garbage - they yell about things that aren't relevant to customers (along with some relevant items).
If I'm doing speed tests, I use https://tools.pingdom.com because it's free for multiple tests and it breaks the actual page speed down to each component, first pixel, etc.

If I need to shut someone up, I use https://www.dareboost.com/en/compare to prove that their website loads faster than their competition :D
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Damn right, I've been using https://tools.pingdom.com/ for years.
 
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Ok, on Mobile, I reduced the jpeg file sizes, removed the slide show and a larger image with paralax scrolling and got a bump in my score. On desktop, I reduced the bit rate of the video (Cut the file size in half), set up GZip for my external scripts and json files, minified my JS and CSS external files along with some other minor changes and got a bump there as well. We're making progress! Extremely slowly but surely. But... I promise you Dealer.com if I can't get a decent score in the next 30 -45 days and it comes down primarily to your scripts and CSS files , I'm prob gonna find a diff website provider.

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@Rick Buffkin

Try testing the site using webpagetest.org - You can run a variety of tests from different server locations and device/browser types. It will show you a grade and then you can click in the grade to see issues.

Lighthouse is another great testing tool (you can download the widget as a Chrome Extension)
 
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