Speed Index / Largest Contentful Paint

[DanielPerry]

Hey Guys,

The new site is live for iam39. Exciting times. Been tinkering with this since the launch of Impeka, and I’m very happy with this.

As you can see the increase in performance when using google measure, is significant. Compared to the old MoveDo site its increased from less than 20 to more than 60!

However just wondered if anyone had any suggestions for any ways to get that performance score even higher. Or is this the glass ceiling for a complex impeka site? I notice that rank math has taken around 10 points off of this score.

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[Marius1989]

Hey Dan.

First, if Rank Math took you 10 points of the performance score, you should investigate this further or get rid of that / substitute it.
It all depends on your hosting setup and the plugins you use.
Can you tell us some more details about your configuration? I remember you are on Gridpane.
Which plan do you have and which server do you use?
How to you optimize your site? Kind of caching? Plugins, etc.

I assume this is your mobile score, still it looks very odd to me, you have just a bit over 60.
Yeah, it can be very challenging to get good mobile scores but so many opportunities for improvements there!

[DanielPerry]

agreed maybe I need to try a different plug-in for SEO, I like Rank Math, but maybe its to heavy. I hear good things about SEOPress, what do you use?

I’m using GridPane and I have this site on a Digital Ocean 3 GB Memory / 60 GB Disk / LON1 – Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS) x64 server all though its only 1 core, and has a handful of sites on it. I think I may try to migrate this site to its own at least dual core server and rerun the same tests.

Plug-ins is pretty light. Heres a list….

Active Plugins (16)
Gravity Forms
v2.5.5.1 – by Gravity Forms More
Antispam Bee
v2.9.4 – by pluginkollektiv More
Contact Form 7
v5.4.1 – by Takayuki Miyoshi More
Yoast Duplicate Post
v4.1.2 – by Enrico Battocchi and Team Yoast More
Envato Market
v2.0.6 – by Envato More
GridPane Redis Object Cache
v1.5.6 – by Version Forked by GridPane | Till Krüss More
Impeka Core Extension
v1.1.0 – by Greatives Team More
Impeka WPBakery Extension
v1.1.2 – by Greatives Team More
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
v2.9.1 – by Smash Balloon More
WPBakery Page Builder
v6.6.0 – by Michael M – WPBakery.com More
Nginx Helper
v2.2.2 – by rtCamp More
Post SMTP
v2.0.23 – by Yehuda Hassine More
Safe SVG
v1.9.9 – by Daryll Doyle More
Rank Math SEO
v1.0.65 – by Rank Math More
ShortPixel Image Optimizer
v4.22.2 – by ShortPixel More
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
v2.16.58.25 – by UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson More

Most site optimisation is done by the theme, and server stack. Using ShortPixel to optimise images.

I’ve been investigating with Thanasis, and it seems that their is some issue with the feature image section at the head of the page. He is looking in to this. This warning is only present in Google Measure and is not present in GTMetrix. See 2 images, showing featured section off and featured section on, 2.5 seconds different.


and the offending code

I’ve also tested this on another site, using Crocal, and the same warning is present. But again only in Google Measure, not in GTMetrix. And this is only a single image featured element. Very odd.

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

[Marius1989]

Yeah, for me, SEOPress is the way to go. So feature-rich but light-weight at the same time. Super clean UI, not to mention the pricing. I just love it.

Any reason you use 2 different contact form plugins? CF7 might also not the right choice for a super optimized website.
You could also check out WSForm. It’s a pretty new plugin with newest coding standards. Might be worth it, not only performance-wise.

Since you are using Shortpixel, I haven’t seen any generated WebP versions of your images on your website. You should consider doing that.
At least, it didn’t show up inside the network log and it also passed the Google audit (somehow?). I might be wrong here.

Have you already tried WP Rocket in combination with Perfmatters? It simply works wonders.
Sure, there are many options you won’t need, since you are already on a high performance hosting.
If you target a solid 95+ desktop score and a 75+ mobile score, you should definitely give it a try.
Your pages are not that big and it would be definitively achievable, even with your dynamic portfolio and blog elements.

But you should always have in mind, that a good and smooth user experience weights higher than any numbers on various website scoring sites (basic optimizations provided).

[hiegl]

Did you already check your DB-queries with Query Monitor (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/)? It is really helpful and could point you in the right direction.
My guess is that Smash Balloon Instagram Feed is also responsible for this, but maybe I am wrong.

My go-to SEO-Plugin is The SEO Framework, which is the most lightweight tool, as far as my tests show.

[DanielPerry]

I’m back!!! Been locked out of the Hub for a month. I think Greatives hate me (joke).

so the site is now super fast.

I upgraded to a new server. Vultr HF running litespeed. Tweaked a few plug-ins. Switched Rank Math for SEO-Press for example.

[DanielPerry]

@Marius1989

Yep running 2 form plug-ins. But I need to change that.

Contact form 7 for the beautiful styling options Impeka provides. For the contact form using the safe mode area item. Love it.

Gravity forms for the much more complicated client onboarding forms in the footer. Gravity makes is so quick and easy to add these, complete with complex conditional logic.

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