XF 1.5 Google Page Speed Insights

[ak38]

Hi guys,

I've been looking at my sites page speed results and am getting 66 mobile and 57 desktop.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https://freecannabis.com&tab=desktop

In an attempt to better these numbers I've installed litespeed on the server and the addon to the xenforo installation and settings as follows:

• Enable Delayed Insert SQL Queries
  This enables the use of INSERT DELAYED SQL queries for elements such as view tracking to increase performance. We only recommend disabling this if your host complains about "long MySQL connections" due to a misconception of what those connections represent.
• Minify CSS
  If true, CSS will be run through minify before being served.
  
  Note: The minification process is processor intensive, and you should only enable this option if you have also implemented a caching mechanism in your library/config.php file.
• Fetch public templates as files
  For performance reasons, you may choose to have the public-facing side of XenForo load its templates from files rather than the database. Note that in order for this to be of benefit, you must have an opcode cache installed on your server (APC, eAccelerator, XCache etc.)
• Cache BB Code output
  If enabled, BB code processing output will be cached. This can speed up display of some pages at the cost of using extra space in the database.

The figures haven't improved and the google tool still says I need to minify css but I have enabled and litespeed is installed.

Any tips on how to get my site up to a decent speed score would be very much appreciated.

Thanks all.

 

[Kirby]

Turning off Facebook Connect, Twitter and Google+ Sharing could have a significant effect, but I don't know if that is important for you.

You could try to reduce the amount of JS used as it seems there are a couple non-standard files being included.

 

[ak38]

Thanks Kier, done and scores are improving slowly.

Next Im going to optimise images, what's the best way to do that?

Thanks

 

[ak38]

How do you suggest I go about reducing JS? Thanks

 

[ak38]

These are the issues I'm having:

Possible Optimizations
Optimize images
Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.
Optimize the following images to reduce their size by 289.6KiB (62% reduction).

• Compressing and resizing https://freecannabis.com/…pg&hash=1a868a513f88622cf2ac420aea3d55ac could save 98.6KiB (85% reduction).
• Compressing and resizing https://freecannabis.com/…pg&hash=0f4dcfa776b25b7742a532128be25661 could save 79KiB (84% reduction).
• Compressing and resizing https://freecannabis.com/…25&hash=cb05e22808fb4ab917802f96f5799362 could save 65.2KiB (77% reduction).
• Compressing and resizing https://freecannabis.com/…pg&hash=d148c7be5a39bf490221d2715731d793 could save 25.3KiB (79% reduction).
• Compressing https://freecannabis.com/…pg&hash=e0d3c698c4541b468ba7d7df4b8143aa could save 8.8KiB (17% reduction).
• Compressing https://freecannabis.com/…pg&hash=2d43d82f3a514a30cd1fc990bbebdf0f could save 7.5KiB (12% reduction).
• Compressing https://freecannabis.com/styles/default/xenforo/logo.png could save 2.2KiB (30% reduction).
• Compressing https://freecannabis.com/styles/8wayrun/EWRporta2_slider.png could save 2.2KiB (25% reduction).
• Compressing https://freecannabis.com/…enforo/gradients/category-23px-light.png could save 927B (86% reduction).

Hide detailsEliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 8 blocking script resources and 3 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.
Remove render-blocking JavaScript:

• https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js
• https://freecannabis.com/js/xenforo/xenforo.js?_v=6d2f65b9
• https://freecannabis.com/js/8wayrun/EWRporta2_ajax.js?_v=22
• https://freecannabis.com/js/8wayrun/EWRporta2_images.js?_v=22
• https://freecannabis.com/js/8wayrun/EWRporta2_masonry.js?_v=22
• https://freecannabis.com/js/8wayrun/EWRporta2_slider.js?_v=22
• https://www.youtube.com/player_api?_v=6d2f65b9
• https://freecannabis.com/…s/xenforo/discussion_list.js?_v=6d2f65b9

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:

• https://freecannabis.com/…form,public&style=2&dir=LTR&d=1505133233
• https://freecannabis.com/…y_tab_links&style=2&dir=LTR&d=1505133233
• https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/…t-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css

Hide detailsReduce server response time
In our test, your server responded in 0.23 seconds. There are many factors that can slow down your server response time. Please read our recommendations to learn how you can monitor and measure where your server is spending the most time.
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Anyone got any ideas how I can try and tackle the above? I'd really like to sort this out.

Thanks