Page speed had dramatically dropped with Google Page Insights and Pingdom

  • David Swanson

    (@dsfinancial)


    9 years ago

    I installed my WordPress website on GAE with no problems. It was quite easy. Created the storage bucket. Activate the GAE plugin. Added my email address and bucket name. Website is up and running. I removed W3 Total Cache and EWWW Image Optimizer plugin.
    I checked my website performance on Google Page Speed Insights and PingDom and Google PageSpeed Insights gives me 11/100 (Desktop Version) and PingDom gives me 81/100. PingDom use to be 87/100 and Google Speed Inisghts was 88/100 (Desktop version)

    Google Page Speed Insights says I need to:
    Optimize images
    Reduce server response time
    Leverage browser caching

    And I should consider:
    Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
    Minify CSS
    Minify JavaScript
    Minify HTML

    Should I still be using a .htaccess file that has rules for file types to leverage browser caching?
    Should I still be using EWWW Image Optimizer?
    Should I still be using W3 Total Cache to Minify?
    Not sure how to Reduce server response time. I thought this wouldn’t be a problem since I’m using GAE.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Wow… I’m surprised this became an issue. Would’ve expected improvement too. I’m just researching a potential GAE migrating when I encountered this thread.

    Remember apps running on GAE can’t really write to the local filesystem, so I don’t reckon the image optimizer plugin will work. Unless it writes to the files in the storage bucket (in case it hooks into the same mechanism this plugin creates for users to to upload media). (On a sidenote: I found the reworked WP Smush much more powerful nowadays than EWWW)

    Minifying requires you to edit your theme files. That’s best done on the local machine copy of the website that you run, which you use to redeploy to GAE after theme and plugin installs. (Plugins cannot write to the app files running in GAE from what I understood…)

    I would suggest a good text-editor like Notepad++ and install the minifier plugins for CSS, JS and HTML, then just go to town on your theme files. That way you have more manual control, so to avoid an automatic minifier mucking up your theme files.

    But I am very curious to the plugin author’s response too…

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