[William]

so I had a client who has a VPS hosting their WordPress site, but not Slickstack, and they have no caching or anything but very small site. like only 3 small photos on the homepage and basic WP theme.

Guess what? Pagespeed says its “47” score (failed) and

– 17.3 secs for Largest Contentful Paint
– 3.5 secs for First Contentful Paint
– 0.47 Cumulative Layout Shift
– 3.7 secs speed index

It says that if

– properly sized images would save 13.20 secs
– serve images in next-gen format would save 11.40 secs
– eliminate render blocking would save 2.42 secs
– reduce server response time will save 0.63 secs

WTF guys

I then checked GTMetrix and the site gets A score, with 98% performance and 88% for structure (because of no caching)

– 847ms Largest Contentful Paint
– 0ms Total Blocking Time
– 0.05 Cumulative Layout Shift

[Lori]

How can anyone explain that GTmetrix said this site has “Fully Loaded Time” only 1.9 seconds but Google Pagespeed says more than 17 seconds and failed lmao

[Sandra]

Pagespeed has always been a scam. I swear, it’s like Google’s CEO forced their backend engineers to go out to dinner with some marketing guy, and come up with this s****y ridiculous convoluted tool full of words that nobody understands, for the sole purpose of promoting their overrated WebP image format.

[Marilyn]

for the sole purpose of promoting their overrated WebP image format

……and AMP. don’t forget AMP. also overrated…

[Kenneth]

AMP… LOL

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383175

The time when everyone started using Bing because they hated AMP so much.

[Jennifer]

I’ve been a web developer for over a decade, and I can’t understand what in the f**k Pagespeed is talking about, so you’re not alone.

Making something so complicated that nobody understands it is not a sign of intelligence, it’s a sign of being absolutely clueless to user experience.

So yah, makes sense for Google.

[Jacqueline]

Use Gtmetrix or Pingdom. But even Pingdom has gotten pretty bad after Solarwinds acquired it.

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