Terrible Google PageSpeed ratings...for a blank website.

**forresthowie** · 21 July 2016, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Boy

On my desktop computer the site loaded very fast and on my mobile phone (with wireless) it showed pretty fast as well. You use quite some pictures which tends to slow down loading times. By the way, nice pictures and nice site.

I noticed "ma sm" written over the first picture on the Edinburgh page.

Thank you very much for your comments! Yeah I took one page and wrote a reminder of what each variant was for something I was doing. These are all gone now.
I really appreciate you checking out the page.

**Boy** · 21 July 2016, 10:29 AM

Pleasure.

**Room101** · 22 July 2016, 12:02 AM

I don’t think the OP is worrying unnecessarily about page load speed, I understand Google do use it in their rankings.

**forresthowie** · 22 July 2016, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Room101

I don’t think the OP is worrying unnecessarily about page load speed, I understand Google do use it in their rankings.

That was one worry I had, the other was that I had other weird effects. I've still go a 'slow' site but last night I upgraded my 1and1 package with their CDN Plus and the weird effects I was having before hand (images not appearing, background colour boxes not showing, buttons missing) have disappeared. I'm sure I need to deal with this more effectively but, for now, this seems to have helped a lot.
Thank you for helping.
Yours,
Robert

**Boy** · 23 July 2016, 10:05 AM

But now the link doesn't seem to work anymore: http://www.actualeducation.co.uk/

**forresthowie** · 23 July 2016, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Boy

But now the link doesn't seem to work anymore: http://www.actualeducation.co.uk/

Apologies!
I went for a 'soft launch' of the website. It is now 'live' at www.historicedinburghtours.co.uk

Thanks,
Robert

**Boy** · 23 July 2016, 11:40 AM

Ah, it's the same site as mentioned in the other thread.

**ss-kalm** · 23 July 2016, 12:38 PM

It loads very quickly for me.

**Egg Bramhill** · 23 July 2016, 12:58 PM

Pingdom loaded the home page in 2.2secs

It's a nice tool to test things on:

LINK

**forresthowie** · 03 August 2016, 10:40 PM

Thanks everyone for checking in on this and offering help and results. I deleted the biggest 'variant' and it sped things up. Was sad to lose it but it really was too big and I needed to be a bit less proud and a lot more realistic!

Ah the perks of thinking 'I was there'!

Your help was much appreciated,
Yours,
Robert