Shrinking the Website and Still Fighting the Performance Scores

April 16, 2021

A practical optimization day: breakfast, more minimization, Lighthouse and WebPageTest confusion, GTmetrix and Dare Boost checks, image-format decisions, SLT delays, and the sinking realization that even after making the site smaller, the performance numbers still refuse to behave cleanly.

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11:30 AM

11:30 a.m.

My maid Manju made me breakfast:

Raspberry Jam sandwich toast and half boiled eggs.

The raspberry jam is horrible.

I will go back to Strawberry jam by MD.

I also need to try out and finish the mango jam by MD.

MD brand does a good job.

The Kist sherbet syrup is terrible compared to MD sherbet drink too.

11:30 AM (b)

11:30 a.m.

(b)

My breakfast. I have to wash my hands after eating.

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12:30 PM

12:15 p.m.

I have to update hi-"Story" section of my firm's website

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https://youtu.be/SkTt9k4Y-a8

4:15 PM

4:15 p.m.

I am working. I will write later.

May need to minimise website further.

I worry I might end up losing picture quality, but I can add these to other sections of the website.

Average loading times are anyway 6 seconds for technology websites

Our firm is doing a fantastic job without a Content Delivery Service Provider or CDP as well !

7:45 PM

7:45 p.m.

Very strangely, I found out that my efforts did not really result in improvements:

On Apr 16:

@ 3:50 PM

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

0–49

50–89

90–100

Performance

Metrics

First Contentful Paint

3.9 s

Speed Index

4.5 s

Largest Contentful Paint

4.9 s

Time to Interactive

12.9 s

Total Blocking Time

2,870 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift

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@ 6:32 PM

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

0–49

50–89

90–100

Performance

Metrics

First Contentful Paint

3.8 s

Speed Index

18.6 s

Largest Contentful Paint

4.8 s

Time to Interactive

51.1 s

Total Blocking Time

43,420 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift

@ 7:17 PM

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

0–49

50–89

90–100

Performance

Metrics

First Contentful Paint

3.2 s

Speed Index

6.6 s

Largest Contentful Paint

9.5 s

Time to Interactive

11.2 s

Total Blocking Time

1,920 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift

0.014

@ 7:30 PM

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

0–49

50–89

90–100

Performance

Metrics

First Contentful Paint

3.2 s

Speed Index

6.5 s

Largest Contentful Paint

6.8 s

Time to Interactive

11.1 s

Total Blocking Time

1,490 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift

0.014

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Very, very strange.

So, performance plunged from initial 33 to 21, then up to 25 and then 28.

Crazy.

I mean, at 6:32 PM, I had already removed many elements, so it is very strange.

I dunno. Maybe, I have work to do or I need to use a CDN service or something--

Very, very strange, I am 'in over my head' as this is not my area of expertise, though I am learning.

https://youtu.be/fFRkpvvop3I

I have a gut feeling, I have improved things because the homepage was minimalized.

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Here is a latest report screenshot

8:00 PM

8:00 p.m.

(b)

WTF? This score suddenly goes up to 40?

8:30 PM

8:30 p.m.

I am getting hungry, I will go get dinner soon.

I did a few web tests on alternatives to Google's Lighthouse --

G T Metrix results are good

The first image is just 57 KB or similar, I cannot compress it further

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8:30 PM (b)

8:30 p.m.

(b)

I am web load time testing on Dare Boost

I see the web page is only 1.5 mb which is light

Eddy's Minerva Labs takes up about 2 MB or something, I read in his whitepaper to run

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I am reading through--

Gotta change PNG IMG files to JPEG

https://youtu.be/AGlwClQkfHM

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8:45 PM

8:45 p.m.

Very disappointing, the Web Page Test result is also a miserly lowly result!

I might be forced to remove the icons

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9:30 PM

9:30 p.m.

Noticed suspicious ISP side delays and lag, the connection was also not working--

I switched to SLT Mobitel mobile hotspot.

I am pretty hungry, will break for dinner.

I have made our firm's website homepage as small as I can.

10:30 PM

10:30 p.m.

SLT internet stopped working properly at around 9:30 p.m., now it is working...

I guess, the web loading times are to do with Wix and stuff, I can hire a CDN to speed it up

11:30 PM

11:30 p.m.

It is getting late, I should eat dinner soon.

I made my firm's website incredibly small--

This should make it load as fast as possible

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