The strange thing with the website speed

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Every now and then I check the speed of my various websites with Google https://developers.google.com/.... At the beginning I was happy, all seemed to be really good, green was the constant color.

Then I didn't check for a while and when I did it again everything was dark red. Then you still got the calculation also for mobile - or is this check for mobile? I have no idea at this pont as it says "unavailable" - and it was far worse than on desktop. I didn't know what to do. There were indications to optimise certain pictures, but the ones they named were not in my library. I asked the theme support and they said that they were inherent to the theme and that I couldn't do anything. Well - ???

Then there was something about javascript. Although I now know what that means I had no idea what they were suggesting that I should do, and even less HOW. I again asked support, but that didn't bring me further. So I just let it go, I felt helpless and hoped for better times. I hadn't understood why it had become so much worse, and so, who knows, it could get better in the same ways.

And actually, it did. When I checked lately I was first yellow, and only one hour later even in green. Yeah! Happy again, but no idea what had caused it. I hadn't changed anything essential, only added some more pages and posts in the same way as ever.

Then, the next day

I checked again - and no green at all, down to yellow, but at least not red, as it was some time before.

I am not aware to have changed anything to cause that and I am very curious if anybody knows how these results come out? It doesn't seem to be a reliable information. And also I wouldn't know what to do to keep the speed in "green". Do YOU? If you do, please let me know.

All the best from Heidi in Italy - working hard in trying to understand all this website stuff...

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I am in the same boat.

I then used the tools function at pingdom.com and manually check a few pages. They all returned a good result. But not google page insights.

I have decided to wait a while, because I do not think I have done anything that would damage speed. I think google page insights have changed some of their rules in how they determine performance.

I even put in the URL of a fellow affiliate into the pingdom.com tool who I know is really into web site performance, and my results were better than his.

Try not to be concerned about this.

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Hi David,
Thanks for your reply. Isn't it weird? There are tools meant to help us getting oriented and instead they confuse us and steel our time. I don't know what to think about that. It induces me to ignore what we have learned, somehow.

Thanks for the link, for your optimism and have a good time.
Heidi

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Hi Heidi, I agree with you 100%. I lost some time trying to get to the bottom of this and never really did. If something like this happens again, I will compare my results in Google PageSpeed Insights against a few other websites that I know are into site performance in both Google PageSpeed Insights and pingdom - And then draw my conclusions.

I am surprised that there does not seem to be more of a discussion about it here though.

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Thanks for your reply!
I am not very much active any more in the community after having been fully immersed for 8 months or so. It just takes me too much time although I like being connected. So I really don't know what topics are up to date anymore.

I think you are right: these things should be addressed. The things you try to get right and then you fail and don't know why.

Anyways, I have strange experiences lately with Google. Calendar entries disappear, Hangouts on air are not reliable and I always have to have a backup plan ready for my live events, Chrome freezes regularly and still works somehow so that you don't notice - only when your work of many hours on your website has disappeared because the saving didn't work - and many similar things.

The cyber world is fascinating - as long as it works properly!
Have a good time at WA!
Heidi

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