Alternating 74/88 vs 97/96 Pagespeed Insights Score

[Mr. Progress]

Hey everyone!

When analyzing my page, I get a 74 for mobile and 88 for desktop score when I enter my URL the first time, and each time thereafter I get a 97 for mobile and 96 for desktop score. When I try again the next day, I get 74/88 at first, and 97/96 each time after again. Site is: https://howtogetrippedathome.com/

Now, what is my actual score? And how can the results be so different (and consistently with the same numbers)?

Very curious to what you guys think.

Best,

Maarten

[Rick Steinwand]

Try a tool that scores you individually for each item:

https://gtmetrix.com/

https://www.webpagetest.org/

https://tools.pingdom.com

Is it "time to first byte"?

[Mr. Progress]

Tried the three tests you recommended. GTmetrix: 1.7s fully loaded time, 1.68MB. Webpagetest.org: First byte 1.539s, load time 5.452s. Pingdom: 2.01s load time, 1.6MB. See images. What does this say? I have absolutely no idea to be honest.

Op maandag 11 december 2017 14:35:03 UTC+1 schreef Rick Steinwand:

[Rick Steinwand]

Did you try one at a time twice, like you said happens with PGI?

ie. run GTmetrix, then run it again (like you said you do with PSI). See if your score changes and if so, where.

[Mr. Progress .]

The score changes somewhat yeah, but I can't really find a pattern. I have no idea where the changes in pagespeed insights come from... I ran every test 3 times, I pasted all the results in the image attached. Do you have any idea? Thanks a lot for looking into it!

2017-12-13 15:00 GMT+01:00 Rick Steinwand <rickst...@gmail.com>:

Did you try one at a time twice, like you said happens with PGI?

ie. run GTmetrix, then run it again (like you said you do with PSI). See if your score changes and if so, where.

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[Rick Steinwand]

Unless you see a score actually change and know what changed, it's only speculation.

You can subscribe for GTmetrix for up to about 5 pages and monitor it over time (like daily) and see what changes that way.

FWIW, you're battling some of the same stuff as me (Google services), but I don't get the wide swings in scores you're experiencing.