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Kind of like how amazon shows you the search results by "Relevance", "Price", "Popularity", etc. Maybe google can do it too and let us sort by "Relevance", "Speed", "By Geography", etc.
I expect this should hit bad WordPress developers hardest, since the throw-another-plugin-on-the-fire philosophy has led to pages that load 15 javascript libraries for features not even present on that page.
Is there any fast alternative?
While this is great news but is there a way to opt-out of it? I don't really mind heavy sites (sometimes) since I'm always on wifi most of the time and care more about search relevance than speed. Kind of like how amazon shows you the search results by "Relevance", "Price", "Popularity", etc. Maybe google can do it too and let us sort by "Relevance", "Speed", "By Geography", etc.
I expect this should hit bad WordPress developers hardest, since the throw-another-plugin-on-the-fire philosophy has led to pages that load 15 javascript libraries for features not even present on that page.
1) https://www.webpagetest.org for analyzing loading times
2) a3 lazy load for lazy-loading images: https://wordpress.org/plugins/a3-lazy-load/
3) autoptimize for combining multiple CSS files: https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
More description of what we did at my write-up here: https://hackernoon.com/dont-brake-for-fonts-3-web-performanc...
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Is there any fast alternative?
In general, it’s not an alternative so much as actually measuring performance and making sure you don’t exceed your targets for each type of visitor. For almost everything you can find fast and slow examples based on how people configured it.
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In general, it’s not an alternative so much as actually measuring performance and making sure you don’t exceed your targets for each type of visitor. For almost everything you can find fast and slow examples based on how people configured it.
yes sure, I get that. But: I am looking for an alternative, that you can't "mess around" with, the one, that can't be configured to death. I guess "medium" is an obvious choice if you are looking for a log only, but I have no idea how fast their site really is
I expect this should hit bad WordPress developers hardest, since the throw-another-plugin-on-the-fire philosophy has led to pages that load 15 javascript libraries for features not even present on that page.
Couple things I found while optimizing a particular WordPress site 1) https://www.webpagetest.org for analyzing loading times 2) a3 lazy load for lazy-loading images: https://wordpress.org/plugins/a3-lazy-load/ 3) autoptimize for combining multiple CSS files: https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/ More description of what we did at my write-up here: https://hackernoon.com/dont-brake-for-fonts-3-web-performanc...
In my experience the biggest issue with with slow load times are people uploading large unoptimized images. Things like multiple css/js files, unnessary plugins and framework are nothing compared to people using uncompressed large images. Use a plugin, ImageOptim or cloudinary.
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yes sure, I get that. But: I am looking for an alternative, that you can't "mess around" with, the one, that can't be configured to death. I guess "medium" is an obvious choice if you are looking for a log only, but I have no idea how fast their site really is
If it can’t be configured, people won’t use it. The kind of stuff most sites suffer from is as simple as being able to not have it look like everyone else: once you do that the odds approach certainty that someone’s design will load 8mb of ads, fonts, etc.
Shouldn't Google have done this in the first place instead of AMP?
They did, back in 2010 [0]. And suprisingly nobody really changed anything, which is why they eventually came up with the idea for and created AMP. This change is more focused on mobile. [0] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...