Installed Plugin now my Google results appears to be worse

  • ejwjohn

    (@ejwjohn)


    8 years ago

    Hello,

    I have for some time realised that i had an issue with Render Blocking when i tested my site with Google, so after doing some investigation i decided to load this plugin.

    The decision to do this was mainly based on some very positive feedback from the blog at:-
    Install with W3 total Cache

    After following the instruction at the above blog i have now retested by site with Google and it appears that i am now worse of than i was before, in that i now have external JS files etc that i did not have before and there are a few other issues that are also new.

    Anyone suggest what i am doing wrong… i am relatively new to WordPress only started using it about 12 months ago, so the help would be appreciated.

    Thank You

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  • Thread Starter ejwjohn

    (@ejwjohn)

    Apologies the site in question is

    glandorevillage.ie.

    Plugin Author Frank Goossens

    (@futtta)

    hi @ejwjohn;
    had a look at your site, pagespeed score seems slightly better with AO () when compared to without (adding ?ao_noptimize=1 to the URL disables AO), but there indeed still are some issues that need to be tackled;

    * switch to this statcounter code to make it non-render blocking (even if GPSI didn’t list is as such, it was most certainly also render blocking without AO)
    * consider using AO’s “remove google fonts”-option or alternatively try out google font optimizer plugin
    * instead of “inline all css” switch to “inline & defer css”. it’s not as easy, but it is a lot better really. there’s more info in the FAQ.
    * consider installing & running an image optimizing plugin (e.g. shortpixel, cfr. the “optimize more”-tab in AO or tinypng).

    hope this helps,
    frank

    Thread Starter ejwjohn

    (@ejwjohn)

    Hello,

    As you will note i am a novice at this, however the report i get after running Page insight test shows that i have js issues and not CSS should i therefore be selecting one of the JS options?

    I did try this and it resulted in slightly worse results

    Or have i misunderstood something here.

    thx John

    Plugin Author Frank Goossens

    (@futtta)

    well, depends, what JS-option did you select? ??

    to clear; “Prioritize visible content: Your page requires additional network round trips to render the above-the-fold content. For best performance, reduce the amount of HTML needed to render above-the-fold content.” is mostly a CSS-issue, hence my “inline & defer”-advice.

    frank

    Thread Starter ejwjohn

    (@ejwjohn)

    Frank,

    Apologies….for the clear lack of detail in my response.

    Ok I tired the Force Java script in <head>? and it got worse, and then i cleared that selection and retried with Also aggregate in line JS? with what appeared to be a similar result, both of these options are now clear and the only one set is the Optimize Javascript Code?

    Sorry,

    John

    Plugin Author Frank Goossens

    (@futtta)

    indeed, just keep the default JS settings (not force in head, not aggregate inline js, no try/catch, keep jquery.js excluded).

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