Google thinks we're slow..?

[lazer]

We moved to XF in early April and were previously on VB. When we were running VB our loading times were in the 1-2 seconds bracket and we were pretty happy with that - even though we had a pretty graphically heavy style and little or no image optimization.

Since moving to XF, surprisingly, Google thinks that the site has become much slower:


..and even though YSlow and PageSpeed tell us that things are ok, we can't work out why they are still experiencing slower load times than in the "real World".

Anyone else experienced this since the switch to XF?
Anyone out there that could give us pointers as to where the problem may lie?

Cheers.

 

[lazer]

Sorry, should have made that clearer, we use a custom node icon sprite...

 

[craigiri]

So...I set the front end cache as specified in the manual.

How do I figure out if it is working? Does it store those files somewhere so that I can tell what it is doing?

 

[TheBigK]

Disable the Facebook share button and you'll save yourself between 1 - 10 seconds (sometimes more depending on the load on Facebook).

I've disabled Facebook and Twitter. People didn't really use it. Is there any way to disable Google Plus as well? I don't see any option in AdminCP.

 

[Forsaken]

I've disabled Facebook and Twitter. People didn't really use it. Is there any way to disable Google Plus as well? I don't see any option in AdminCP.

Google is disabled by default, due to increased load times when its active.

 

[TheBigK]

Google is disabled by default, due to increased load times when its active.

Strange - it shows up in my 'Share this page' below thread pages. Don't remember where I enabled it. Where should I look to disable it now?

 

[Forsaken]

Strange - it shows up in my 'Share this page' below thread pages. Don't remember where I enabled it. Where should I look to disable it now?

Probably under SEO settings.

 

[TheBigK]

Probably under SEO settings.

Bingo! I'm developing blind spots!

 

[tenants]

Why don't we load the facebook and twitter buttons after the page has loaded (Or do we already do that?)
...Use JQuery to Build the "Share this page" block after everything else is done

This will prevent slurping out the FaceBook/Twitter scripts and having to talk to the API at the point the user visits the page
I think it will also "trick" google into thinking the page has loaded (I might be wrong)....

Possible Free Plugin on the way... I'm look at this now

 

[Forsaken]

Why don't we load the facebook and twitter buttons after the page has loaded (Or do we already do that?)
...Use JQuery to Build the "Share this page" block after everything else is done

This will prevent slurping out the FaceBook/Twitter scripts and having to talk to the API at the point the user visits the page
I think it will also "trick" google into thinking the page has loaded (I might be wrong)....

Possible Free Plugin on the way... I'm look at this now

Pretty sure its delayed to load after the page loads most other elements.

I remove it just to have a lighter page in general.