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There are endless situations one can encounter while checking the speed of a website on a website speed tester especially considering that there are many of those. Lets start by stating that not all of them measure the same things so it is normal to get different results depending on where you test your site. So first of all please read at this article by Kinsta to know how to properly run a website speed test: How to Properly Run a Website Speed Test
Our key takeaways from what we have learned in years of experience are:
It is important to know that before doing a website speed test you should flush your cache. Please do it in this order:
After flushing your cache you should check your site with a page speed tester multiple times in order to let all the caches work properly and rule out any false positives. Id also check again in about 4 hours and run a few more tests.
If GTMetrix GPSI or any other web tool complained about one or more images on your website not being optimized after you ran our tool here are some common reasons why this is happening:
I cannot stress this enough. As mentioned above the scores are a combination of many factors and many of them have no effect in your website speed. This is especially true in Google PageSpeed Insights (and GTmetrix as their results are based on Googles); you may think this tool matters the most because its made by Google but the reality is that theres very little correlation between getting a good score on this tool and having a good rank on Google. In my opinion the Google Speed Test is one of the worst. The information it gives is either unhelpful for the average user or highly off the mark. In other words scoring bad in PageSpeed Insights means very little. To illustrate this check these two famous sites:
Tanner from UpCity gives a very good advice:
Sometimes one will be concerned regarding the TTFB (Time To First Byte); some hosting providers may claim that our image CDN is taking a few ms of loading time. Good news: you shouldnt be concerned about the time to first byte (unless its extremely bad). Any image optimizer (and actually any plugin) by definition will take a few ms of time when loading. We can assure you that Spade Designs plugins are among the most optimized ones and you can try them out in a sandbox like this one: Sandbox
In addition we recommend to read this article that Cloudflare wrote about this clarifying this situation: Stop worrying about Time To First Byte (TTFB)
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