Curious - How are your websites doing with PageSpeed Insights ?
Running Insights on one of my Webflow sites produced interesting information.
PageSpeed Insights is saying this:
Mobile: 55/100
Desktop: 70 / 100
Those are pretty bad scores.
(keep in mind… everything html / css / js / images are already compressed.
Here are the recommendation for mobile:
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 4 blocking script resources and 4 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
IMAGES
Compressing /images/arrow-down-opz.png could save 49.1KiB (97% reduction).
Compressing and resizing /images/client-logo-small-opz.png could save 19.3KiB (96% reduction).
Compressing /images/client-logo-large-opz.png could save 18.3KiB (46% reduction).
Compressing /images/default-image-dining-opz.jpg could save 7.6KiB (46% reduction).
Compressing /images/default-image-welcome-opz.jpg could save 4.4KiB (40% reduction).
Compressing /images/default-image-amenities-opz.jpg could save 4.1KiB (29% reduction).
“Prioritize visible content”
Only about 37% of the final above-the-fold content could be rendered with the full HTML response see screenshot show original.
This seems to be saying - don’t use a Hero section on the website.
I’ve read on here that sites hosted on Webflow load quickly because of the resources Webflow utilizes on the back end.
I’ve also read that Google PageSpeed won’t affect SEO.
But in talking with SEVERAL Google AdWords Specialists they have assured me the PageSpeed is taken into account and ABSOLUTELY IS costing me more per ad/click…etc…
My site is hosted elsewhere. All the css, js and font requests are KILLING my Google PageSpeed. Right now the Mobile Page scores a 19/100. That’s terrible. I don’t want to try and figure out how to move scripts below the fold, what needs to load and what can wait, how to “in-line” css and js in pieces…etc…
But, I HAVE to do something.
Is there a way, short of paing for hosting, to see what my PageSpeed would be IF it was hosted on Webflow and not elsewhere?
I tried hosting it with Webflow but the email forwarding was a REAL snafu. I can’t remember what all the problems were but they seemed insurmountable…
Nothing above answers my question of how to see the difference IF hosted on Webflow.
And why would I use a “trial period” of a pay for play tool when Google AdWords uses their Page Speed tool to grade my site?
Doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks. Google owns this universe and if we want to play in it we have to make THEM happy. Not another tool someone has designed to monetize.
Let’s say a user clicks on an ad to your website, but your website took more than 5 seconds to load, so the user decides to close the tab and browse other stuff - you still pay for that ad click so it would be right to say it will cost you more (in terms of unfufilled goals, like purchasing a product or subscribing to your newsletter). You pay for visitors/traffic that didn’t do anything on your website.
However, where Google pagespeed doesn’t do well, is that even for websites who loads under 3 seconds, they still give your website a low score. My Webflow-hosted website loads under a second, but the PageSpeed Insights gives me a score of 61 (mobile)/77 (desktop). There is definitely room for improvement for my Webflow-hosted site at this moment, but they would have a negligible impact on traffic (as it almost loads instantly for users).
Instead of just focusing on page load speed, which is only one aspect of a good website, you could improve your site in other areas specified using the alternate tool I suggested.
Yes, sign up for a free Webflow account and you get a free webflow.io subdomain to test your site(s) before you decide to purchase hosting.
So I am right when assuming a webflow.io subdomain is set up identically as a premium hosting account? The reason I am asking is because for example WPEngine does not have caching on staging site. Pretty cool if webflow.io subdomain is identical with real hosting account as it would give the designer a chance to check speed etc before publishing. This provides a heads up as to whether tweaks should be made.
Did you ever get an answer for this and what we can do? I have same problem with pagespeeds and my agency telling me it’s costing us extra in AdWords because our pricing goes up.
Well… I actually wrote quite a bit in response… but decided not to publish it.
In short. No… but it’s a multi-faceted No.
In part: what @samliew said is true. Reducing the size of the Hero helps.
Also: what your Adwords person said (IMO) is true. I am also an SEO / SEM / Adwords Specialist.
A big issue I have… somewhat relates to this post:
Once that’s fixed… I can (re-)gauge the situation. But for now… I still encounter speed issue with Webflow constructed sites. Not the servers… the servers are pretty fast. The code is clean. But the code is fat.
Fortunately I have the technical expertise to overcome them.