Google PageSpeed Gives a zero for my Site.

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Passionate Dev

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Jul 3, 2013, 1:56:24 PM7/3/13
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Hi,
I tested my site on google pagespeed and it used to give a score of 80+ till last 3 weeks. But since last 2 weeks i am getting a 0 pagespeed which is beyond my understanding. I have tried different things, like checking my headers, any redirects etc but cannot find the cause. I will appreciate if anyone can advice me on this. The site url is

Dave Mankoff

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Jul 3, 2013, 2:17:05 PM7/3/13
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Howdy. I am not sure why the score would have changed suddenly a few weeks ago, but the reason for your low score today is primarily due to your server response time. We generally recommend that you try to get response times down to 100ms or below.

For static content, this should be fairly straight foward. You can tune server parameters, split your static content onto a different server, or use a cdn to serve this content.

Here are the results when I ran the page:


Also of concern is that much of your content is very slow to download. When I load your site in my browser, it is taking as much as 50 seconds to download some of your css files. Are you seeing the same thing?



-dave mankoff


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Thomas Hey'l

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Jul 3, 2013, 2:42:40 PM7/3/13
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Hi!

@ Dave:
Just a countertest looking at the Chrome network tab in JS tools from Germany. The homepage does not load fast, but gives me 3.03s for DomContenLoaded and 7.25s for onload which is far from good, but also far from what you measured.

Anyhow, 36 scripts and 18 style sheets + 27 images can easily become critical when the server responds slowly.

@ Passionate Dev:
Page Speed should give you a lot of suggestions what you can do to improve the situation once it works. What exactly gives you the zeroes? Insights or the browser extensions?

Regards, Thomas

Dave Mankoff

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Jul 3, 2013, 2:54:06 PM7/3/13
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Hey'l <in...@themt.de> wrote:
@ Dave:
Just a countertest looking at the Chrome network tab in JS tools from Germany. The homepage does not load fast, but gives me 3.03s for DomContenLoaded and 7.25s for onload which is far from good, but also far from what you measured.

That's a good data point, Thomas, thanks. It's probably worth investigating a little bit more as well for this reason. When I investigated the site a bit more, I can see that it does appear to be hosted in Germany. I am browsing from the US, but if your primary audience is German, then I may not be a good test case.



-dave mankoff
 

Thomas Hey'l

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Jul 3, 2013, 3:02:06 PM7/3/13
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Hi Dave!

I highly dare to doubt that the primary audience are German residents.  I see the site is registered in London.

Regards, Thomas

Passionate Dev

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Jul 4, 2013, 4:04:58 AM7/4/13
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Thank you @Thomas and @Dave for suggestions. It does download slow for me too, I contacted my hosting provider for speed issue, hope to get some help on improving server response time from there. The audience of this site is in UK primarily. Can i get any suggestions which can improve my site's speed with the same server response time? Thanks in advance.


Thomas Hey'l

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Jul 4, 2013, 3:56:42 PM7/4/13
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Hi Pasionate Dev!


On Thursday, July 4, 2013 10:04:58 AM UTC+2, Passionate Dev wrote:
Thank you @Thomas and @Dave for suggestions. It does download slow for me too, I contacted my hosting provider for speed issue, hope to get some help on improving server response time from there. The audience of this site is in UK primarily. Can i get any suggestions which can improve my site's speed with the same server response time? Thanks in advance.

Again my question: Are you able to see the Page Speed Insights suggestions?

88 requests and 1.2 MB for the homepage are a heavy load, and maybe the 0 core is okay as 7+ seconds loading time is really beyond what users tolerate even if they really want to see your content.  I guess that except of compressions and caching issues there not very much your provider can do for you.  You shouldfirst try to fix issues you can change.

Regards, Thomas

Passionate Dev

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Jul 24, 2013, 1:20:26 AM7/24/13
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Thank you Thomas. I can see suggestions on Page Speed Insights, and i understand that i need to work on my page, but if you are more specific it will be very helpful. Do you mean i should lessen the http requests? like instead of making different calls, unify scripts and call one big one script instead of many smaller ones? Please clarify. 
Thank you.

Thomas Hey'l

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Jul 24, 2013, 9:32:18 AM7/24/13
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Hi, Passionate Dev!


On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 7:20:26 AM UTC+2, Passionate Dev wrote:
Thank you Thomas. I can see suggestions on Page Speed Insights, and i understand that i need to work on my page, but if you are more specific it will be very helpful. Do you mean i should lessen the http requests? like instead of making different calls, unify scripts and call one big one script instead of many smaller ones?

Yes, of course.  The less requests, the better it is. You should try to minify them as much as possible. Unifying scripts. i.e., needs to be balanced.  There are situations where unfying all of them can be a tradeoff as script block the page rendering, and in such cases it might be handy to serve to scripts: One that must not and another that may be deferred, so it won't block the page load.


I can see suggestions on Page Speed Insights

Great!  So what else is it exactly you need more details or maybe solutions for?

Regards, Thomas

Thomas Hey'l

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Jul 24, 2013, 9:36:20 AM7/24/13
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Sorry, I meant: two scripts and scripts block.

Regards, Thomas

Emily Cooper

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Feb 26, 2014, 11:43:56 AM2/26/14
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Hi, I'm having the same issue where the average page load time for all the pages in the site is zero seconds. The site was just created so it's not as if it used to be high, but it still seems strange. The suggestions are giving me lots of things to change relative to minimizing file sizes and compressing js files, but I don't have access to the source code and the developer is making all the changes from a Joomla admin panel. I saw that there's a specific call you can place in your code about page time tracking, but I wasn't sure if it was just for ga.js or if it works for analytics.js as well? My site is located here, emea-reimbursement.cookmedical.com. Any insite is appreciated!

Cheers!
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