Discrepancies between Google's page speed report and 3rd parties

[Robert Fleming]

Hello all:

I recently began testing my page speed on my site @ www.rlfleming.com. I started using GTmetrics, and Pingdom, and after I changed my CDN I began testing with Google's Page speed in addition to the 3rd party testing, and I have received different speed ratings from all three services, and I am wondering which is the most accurate results ?

With Google, I received an 89/100, with Pingdom 91/100 , and with GTmetrics 97/100. On both 3rd party sites, I test using Dallas and firefox to ensure I am getting relatively as close as possible to the most realistic testing parameters.

So is Google the only results I should be concerned with and why are the other two sites so far apart on testing results?

This is the link to the Pingdom report https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/ckCsu6/http://www.rlfleming.com  and I am attaching the GTmetrics report

Thank you in advance for your help.

Rob

[Rick Steinwand]

GT Metrix isn't always up to date with PSI and ySlow. I'm not familiar with Pingdom.

Don't sweat the numbers, just fix what's within your ability.

[Rob Fleming]

Ok so Is slow important because while I have high numbers in psi and the others, my yslow rating is extremely low, like a 79

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On Sep 15, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Rick Steinwand <colc...@702com.net> wrote:

GT Metrix isn't always up to date with PSI and ySlow. I'm not familiar with Pingdom.

Don't sweat the numbers, just fix what's within your ability.

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[Rick Steinwand]

One is a recommendation by Google, the other by Yahoo.

Both are similar, just a different scoring method.

I'd try for the highest you can get on both, depending on your time and abilities. Always go for the low hanging fruit (easiest for you) first tho. Every little bit helps.

[ddur]

Only relevant metrics is time to load page. And user experience how fast page looks like loaded.

Take everything else as check/to-do list that will help you to achieve fast page load times.

ie optimizing images, minimizing styles and scripts for few Kb savings on page of Mb sizes is useless.

[ddur]

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rlfleming.com%2F

Your page is served with Apache.

You should try NGinx + HTTPS + HTTP/2

;)