He was using Cloudways cache, Nitropack CDN, and another minify plugin on top of that. Pagespeed score 95 on mobile, he couldn’t understand why so many buggy behavior on his site if his scores were so high… and then I deleted all of it and moved him to SlickStack on Vultr $6/month AMD CPU server.
He can’t believe how well his site is working now, despite worse Pagespeed scores. I told him Pagespeed is misleading people into doing really ridiculous things!
Pagespeed be like “combine your bloated WP site into a bunch of junk minify assets until it completely breaks your website and we will give you a 95 score!!”
LoL funny you say that because Pagespeed did actually show an error when calculating the Largest Contentful Paint, maybe from all the over-minifying crap??
I mean, probably going to have some issues with that setup. But I tell everyone to disable Cloudways Varnish cache anyways, it’s not only Cloudways, its just Varnish is such a beast and guaranteed to cause WordPress conflicts.
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