Google and a Free Speed Test for WordPress sites

[djbaxter]

I just came across this free tool for evaluating page speed for WordPress sites:

Free Website Speed Test Tool for WordPress (Test Your Page Speed)

Analyze whether your website is fast enough and get insights into how to improve your page load time with our free WordPress website speed test tool.

www.isitwp.com

One of the interesting things this site revealed about one of the sites I tested is this:

Reduce the impact of third-party code
Third-party code blocked the main thread for 380 ms

Third-party code can significantly impact load performance. Limit the number of redundant third-party providers and try to load third-party code after your page has primarily finished loading.

Third-Party	Transfer Size	Main-Thread Blocking Time
Google CDN	305054	236.78
Google/Doubleclick Ads	477490	147.63
Google Tag Manager	91816
Google Fonts	43988
Other Google APIs/SDKs	30820
Google Analytics	21394

Notice anything about this table?

That's right. They are all Google. The same Google that keeps pushing us to reduce page load speeds.

 

[Mendalla]

I mean, it's actually not that funny in some regards, but the irony of Google pushing us to use more of their tools thereby affecting the load speeds that Google tells us we are supposed to reduce has to at least get a smile or two.

 

[Lee]

 

[Mendalla]

Pretty wild to think that Jagged Little Pill is 25 years old, eh? Heard her interviewed about it earlier in the year.

 

[RDR]

Robin Sparkles in real life

 

[Gri]

I just came across this free tool for evaluating page speed for WordPress sites:

Free Website Speed Test Tool for WordPress (Test Your Page Speed)

Analyze whether your website is fast enough and get insights into how to improve your page load time with our free WordPress website speed test tool.

www.isitwp.com

One of the interesting things this site revealed about one of the sites I tested is this:

Reduce the impact of third-party code
Third-party code blocked the main thread for 380 ms

Third-party code can significantly impact load performance. Limit the number of redundant third-party providers and try to load third-party code after your page has primarily finished loading.

Third-Party	Transfer Size	Main-Thread Blocking Time
Google CDN	305054	236.78
Google/Doubleclick Ads	477490	147.63
Google Tag Manager	91816
Google Fonts	43988
Other Google APIs/SDKs	30820
Google Analytics	21394

Notice anything about this table?

That's right. They are all Google. The same Google that keeps pushing us to reduce page load speeds.

That's one of the worst things about Google. They want us to reduce page loads (or downrank our site) but most of the load originates from their scripts.

What can we do?

 

[djbaxter]

That's one of the worst things about Google. They want us to reduce page loads (or downrank our site) but most of the load originates from their scripts.

What can we do?

Nothing.

Google's motto used to be, "Do no evil.".

They are so big now they've dropped that. (True.)

Their new motto is, "Do whatever the **** we want. Oh, and do as we say, not as we do." (Not verified as True but True based on their actions.)