PageSpeed Alternatives, Advice?

  • I’ve used Google PageSpeed for awhile now to help the page load for my site. I have it set to cover things like minifying CSS, JS, and combining the HEAD, eliminating whitespace, etc.

    But with Google’s recent announcement about the turn down of PageSpeed I’ve been looking for how to best replace PageSpeed and keep my site optimal.

    Google’s alternatives, I’ve found, require owning your server. So hosting with GoDaddy you cannot install mod_pagespeed.

    This site suggests various CDN providers.

    So I’m wondering if anyone has other suggestions? Or advice on what may be best to choose? Thanks.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Well, to be totally honest, one alternative might be just not using PageSpeed. I switched it off and actually found that my sites loaded much faster, which is maybe why they’re shutting it down. ??

    Otherwise, probably the closest thing out there to Google’s PageSpeed Service is https://www.cloudflare.com/

    If you go that route, please make sure that you use their plugin too, otherwise strange things will happen: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/cloudflare/

    Thread Starter EnduringEpilepsy

    (@enduringepilepsy)

    Well, its taken endless prying (more like pulling teeth) but I think I may have gotten an answer about how we can use mod_pagespeed in .htaccess from Google.

    Google thread on PageSpeed

    PageSpeed link on GoDaddy

    Google PageSpeed Developers Resource

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    mod_pagespeed is a bit different. You get the same behind-the-scenes modification of the content you serve, but you miss out on the distributed CDN provided by Google’s PageSpeed service, which CloudFlare still offers.

    Thread Starter EnduringEpilepsy

    (@enduringepilepsy)

    That’s why I was aggravated by Google to begin with when the turn down announcement came out and the significant lack of information that was provided. Unfortunately right now I don’t have the budget for CloudFlare, but I at least wanted to find a means of continuing to help the page load (I have a crap load of javascript).

    Hopefully in the near future I can look at using it (I’m going to be working with a major health care provider and am looking to get financial grants/support). Again, why I was frustrated by having to pull teeth with Google.They just put everyone who had been using PageSpeed in a corner with no real support and it took me weeks to get this answer out of them.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    This is probably not what you’re looking for, but if you’re writing some JS yourself and need help refactoring it then we can try to help you with that.

    Thread Starter EnduringEpilepsy

    (@enduringepilepsy)

    No. It’s just that while I know the basics of design and development, I have used quite a few plugins for my site and know that I’m heavy on JS because of that. It’s why I had taken advantage of PageSpeed up until now.

    I actually just found a free CDN, Incapsula, I’m going to try out since I don’t use a lot of bandwidth right now. Hopefully it will keep things in check until I can explore further options.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    CloudFlare has a free tier too. Have you tried that?

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