Google Speed Test Versus Any Other Speed Test Like Pingdom

[Kerstin Hutchinson]

We have recently built our company a new website.  The website was built from the ground up to be fast.  We have minify, compressed images, CDN, Caching.   Yet despite this our google speed test fails saying it can't even determine a speed and both desktop and mobile come up poor. 

However if we run the test at pingdom we have a load time of 2.41 seconds and score a B rating.  We've had it down to milliseconds but then had display issues in Edge so we had to reverse the settings.  

I don't understand the drastic differences and why Google is not seeing everything we have done to make the site fast.  Why is this?? 

[Rick Steinwand]

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/faq

[Kerstin Hutchinson]

Thanks,

I've read this but its been more than "a few minutes" 

On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 7:51:33 AM UTC-5, Rick Steinwand wrote:

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/faq

[Rick Steinwand]

This is why you have no Speed (from that Faq I posted earlier):

Why am I not seeing any speed data for a URL?

PSI uses data from the Chrome User Experience Report, which provides speed data for popular URLs that are known by Google's web crawlers. If the speed data for the queried URL is not available in the CrUX dataset, we recommend using Lighthouse to run a synthetic performance audit to estimate page speed, and investigate page optimization recommendations provided by PSI and Lighthouse.

FWIW, I have Speed for desktop, but not mobile. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intercepteft.com%2F&tab=desktop

This is just one reason why you have a bad score (I have one javascript and one stylesheet on most pages): https://gtmetrix.com/reports/360tim.com/bTjc1t2B 

This page has 39 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.

This page has 21 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.