Google is penalizing me for not applying for their own guidelines

[Grzegorz Zawadzki]

Hello,

I use Page Insights to test webpage performance. For only including scripts from google i get penalized in scores.

Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network.

Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources:

• https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js (30 minutes)
• http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js (2 hours)

Should Fix:

Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content

Your page has 4 blocking script resources and 2 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.

Approximately 16% of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.

Remove render-blocking JavaScript:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js

https://maps.gstatic.com/maps-api-v3/api/js/20/2/main.js

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js

http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js

 

Cant load conversion.js async, since it stops working.

Loading maps async also does not work properly (maps do not).

Come on Google. Do you take into consideration fact, that some scripts cannot be loaded async?

Everything is put right befoe </body>. I cant make it lower on script than that.

PS: Applying to your "guidelines" made my page load like sh**. It was opimized for fast and nice loading. Now I can see html without CSS and then CSS apply like after 0.3ms. It looks awfull now, but i get score!

What to do ? My main consideration is google ranking methods used to measure user experience. Those guidelines will (i think) allow me to get better score on page. But you demand me breaking real user experience so your bot is satisfied with user experience.

[Carlos Lizaga Anadon]

You totally misunderstood what the score is for and, since this has been discussed too many times, I'd suggest you reading some other post from here instead.

Regards.

[Grzegorz Zawadzki]

Hello, Thank you for your answer. May I ask which part I miunderstand? Aspect of position in search results?

[Grzegorz Zawadzki]

Seems u won't answer.

Basically, I assume you mean page rank. Few days ago I recived e-mail from google webmastertools stating that:

- My page is not detected as mobile browser friendly since google found errors

- My page will not be recognized as user friendly.

- That this will affect search results position

So. Page insights tool IS a tool that you need to stick to, in order to get high position in results. And I do not misunderstand that.

[Carlos Lizaga Anadon]

Pagespeed is designed to provide some guidelines to let you know what can be done to reduce your page load time, which actually means that you don't have to stick to them to raise a better result position.

Said that, Google is introducing some guidelines in what mobile platform means by saying what web is able to be rendered fine on their devices and what not.

Having a great page load but a poor UX implemented on your site can mean having a site not compatible with mobile devices and that might mean a downgrade on search results coming from mobile so, again, PSI won't raise or decrease your site position in a speed optimization basis.

You're just mixing different tools and functions.

Kind regards.