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Hello,
Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
Can you please share more details on what you want to achieve and what is the decent time you are expecting?
I’ve tested your website on both Gtmetrix and GPSI. The results are great and your speed score is 1.6s. Please see screenshots below:
GtMetrix
Google Page speed

Hi Marko thanks for replying

I am pleased you say “great” for my speed scores. Does this mean I can relax? Let us hope so!

Yes, I can see the GtMetrix result and have verified this my end.

With Google Page speed – that is the “Google Page Insights” isnt it? Your result was 92 (amazing!). However when I run it, the score it diminished to 78 (even worse, the mobile score is only 66!)
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fotoscopic.com%2F&tab=desktop

So I am seeing different results. Is that because I have page caching deployed? Do I need to clear some cache to see the results of this test?

Also, which diagnostic is recommended? GtMetrix I now love (lol), but I also use
Google Page Insights.

Someone told me to use https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/testmysite/
In this test the site consistently scores low (2.9 secs)

WOuld you be able to steer me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
DJ

Is there a reason we are seeing different scores?

Hello @dsj1972,

when testing your website with more than one speed-test tools it can only give you a headache.
I am with you when it comes to GtMetrix as it’s giving much more details. So yes, you can relax as your speed test on Gtmetrix is great and your website is very responsive. I tested it personally on both desktop and mobile.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/fotoscopic.com/AmQqvAe1 – Awesome!
As for the https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/testmysite/ and Google Page Speed Insights for mobile…
The problem is that Page Speed Insights wants you to perform something called ‘Code splitting’. A part of that process means that you figure out what part of the CSS is required to display ‘above the fold’-content — the content you see when you first visit the page without scrolling — and separate that part into a different file. That way, you can load that file the usual way and defer the loading of other stylesheets. You can do the same with scripts by adding async/defer to the script tags. If you’ve done that correctly, the website can show the content a lot faster and loads the content that’s not visible right away afterward. This will improve the “First Meaningful Paint” score from 3.5 seconds to under 1 second.

The problem with above-the-fold-content is that we cannot figure that out for you. We can only combine and minify the scripts and stylesheets to improve the overall loading time. If you want to apply code splitting, you need to disable JS and CSS minification entirely and ask someone with knowledge about code splitting to help you out. Your theme and possibly some plugins need to be modified to separate the above-the-fold styles into a separate file.

We don’t have such an option in our plugin, as it’s very complicated.

And here is the GPSI test again => https://i.imgur.com/jfCC9rH.png

Thank you Marko. I will leave the code splitting for now as it sounds like a vipers nest of problems.

Thanks again.
David.