site appears slower in gtmetrix

  • Resolved sdelnevo

    (@sdelnevo)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Guys

    I have been testing your CDN, my site gets a lower score when the CDN is enabled on GTmetrix than before the CDN was setup.

    on google page speed however, the speed increase is amazing

    Steve

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  • Plugin Author shift8

    (@shift8)

    Steve,

    This is interesting and the metrics from GTmetrix may be interesting to look at. Would you mind sharing the differences w/ GTmetrix?

    For the first few requests to the CDN, you have to give it a chance to cache the requests and response. The very first requests after enabling may appear to be slower and then subsequent requests return content directly from the CDN.

    You can see this before/after by validating the response header :

    X-Shift8CDN-Cache HIT

    My theory is possible the first requests weren’t cached? I’m glad the google page speed proved to be beneficial as well. We are looking at economical ways to improve and expand the CDN , which is always a challenge as this is technically a free service ??

    Thread Starter sdelnevo

    (@sdelnevo)

    Hi

    since posting, I noticed I was able to add a CDN to my settings in gtmetrix
    after adding

    dyblnhboe0x0.wpcdn.shift8cdn.com

    to the “Yslow CDN Hostsnames” it’s brilliant, the results are significantly better

    god I’m sorry for any confusion, that’s down to me I’m afraid and bears no responsibility on your system which is brilliant

    Steve

    Plugin Author shift8

    (@shift8)

    Fantastic – no worries at all.

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