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For all of my pages, including the homepage gatehealing.com Page Speed Insights is significantly slower on ONLY mobile. My server speed is fine on the desktop, so I don’t believe it is the server.
Is there a reason that Enfold might cause this? Folks are saying that I may need a better-optimized theme, but since the desktop version is so fast, I think it must just be a setting that I cannot find that is slowing down the mobile version.
Thanks
JonHey gatehealing,
Thank you for the inquiry.
Have you optimized the loading speed of the site? If you haven’t, please check the following articles for more info about site speed optimization.
// https://kriesi.at/archives/scoring-100-100-in-google-pagespeed-insights-gtmetrix-pagespeed-and-yslow
// https://gtmetrix.com/wordpress-optimization-guide.htmlTo start, you can enable the Enfold > Performance > File Compression settings to compress scripts and stylesheets, which should reduce render-blocking resources. If you have already installed a cache plugin, consider enabling its default compression option or use Autoptimize.
Best regards,
IsmaelAutoptimize really slowed my site down. I am using WP fastest cache now, but can switch to AO if I know what settings to use, and what to put in those fields that allow for codes to exclude, the critical/above the fold css, etc. Removing AO sped everything up, but that may be because I had the wrong stuff in those boxes. I am guessing that using Enfold compressions, WP Fastest Cache compressions AND AO compressions would not be a good idea. . . I have another thread on that question.
J
Oh, and part of my confusion is that my GTmetrix, pagespeedinsights etc DESKTOP scores are at 99-100%. It is ONLY my mobile device speeds that are staying in the 70’s, whether I am using wp fastest cache along with Enfold compression/merging, or just Enfold compression/merging. . . those work great on desktop, it’s just mobile that is the problem.
Any idea why it would only be a mobile issue?
Hi,
Thank you for the update.
I am guessing that using Enfold compressions, WP Fastest Cache compressions AND AO compressions would not be a good idea. . . I have another thread on that question.
Using one of the option listed above should be enough, and you don’t have to combine them. The result might differ on each website, so you have to play around with the settings a bit until you get the best result.
Any idea why it would only be a mobile issue?
According to the pagespeed insight tool, the images in the site are not compressed and sized properly. Installing an image compression, enabling lazy loading and converting jpeg images to webp should help. And for some reason, the gtag script is loaded twice. Did you install a plugin for Google Tag Manager?
Best regards,
IsmaelI don’t have a plugin for Google Tag Manager. I have no clue how it’s there twice. I’ll look into how to get rid of one of them.
Re: Images. I am running short pixel, short pixel adaptive images, and short pixel resize image upload. I have lazy loading enabled and set for all videos and images. Not sure what else I can do? SP is supposed to convert file types to modern types that are more optimized.
J
The resize after upload plugin slows things down, so I had it deactivated, but tried it again, and it does slow things down, so I am leaving that off for now.
Hi,
Thank you for following up.
Where is the server located? The TTFB (Time to First Byte) hovers around 3-5 seconds when we visit the site. This duration represents the time the server takes to send the initial data to my browser (Asia), which is a bit slow. To enhance this, consider improving the performance of the database. You can start by installing a plugin such as WP-Optimize or WP-Sweep to clean up and optimize your database tables. You should also consider subscribing to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) if necessary; however, it will add extra costs to your setup.
The resize after upload plugin slows things down, so I had it deactivated, but tried it again, and it does slow things down,
As mentioned earlier, you might need to consider a different plugin if the current one doesn’t enhance the site’s performance. We may need to login to the site in order to further investigate. Please provide the login details in the private field.
Best regards,
IsmaelI use Cloudflare CDN and it is integrated to WP fastest cache successfully. I just purchased unlimited credits for Short Pixel and re-processed everything. Oddly, I had one page speed insights result where performance was a 97. Then it went back to the 50’s and 60’s.
My host is Dreamhost, but I’m not sure where the server is located. Though I’d think if it was that it would also impact my desktop site, but that is straight A’s. 97 and above consistently.
Login info is in the private box.
Now I’ve deactived AO and WP fastest cache and am trying the Wp-optimize plugin, which seems to be helping, though it is taking over 30 minutes to smush 1 image, so I don’t know how reliable this is going to be.
I have no idea why that gtag is in there twice (source code shows it in FIVE places, but i’m guessing 3 of those aren’t impacting anything).
I was using Yoast SEO but changed to Rank Math for now, but I’m not seeing that tag in the analytics section, just my analytics property and data stream for GA4.
It does look like that extra tag is tacking on some time. If y’all know how to fix it, pls let me know, but i’m going to post on the Google Search Console forum as well.
Jre: gtag: I found it in the SOGO add script header footer Plugin. I just deleted it from there. It definitely improved my speed, but I don’t know if the tag needs to be where I had it, or where it’s still present.
Hi,
Thank you for your patience, I checked your site for mobile and found that your Time-To-First-Byte is almost 3s:
this is not good, everything after that loods well, for desktop the TTFB is under a second so your whole site loads in about 2 seconds.
I found in your WP-Optimize cache settings a setting for mobile was Generate separate files for mobile devices, but this didn’t help, so I don’t see any other difference in your site between mobile and desktop, typically the TTFB is based on your server response to the page request and often that will be fast and the bottle neck is after that, for example my demo site has a TTFB .991
and there is no difference between the desktop & mobile.
I recommend checking your Cloudflare CDN if you are still using it and see if there is some mobile setting, and also check your server for any settings, it seems that somewhere a mobile request is treated differently but I’m not sure where.Best regards,
MikeHi,
yas28 I see that there is a empty space under your sliders, this is from the smushit plugin, please disable the lazy load option in the plugin or disable the plugin and this should correct itself.
It gets confusing when we are working on more than one site per thread, so please open a new thread so we can assist, Thanks for understanding.Best regards,
MikeI’m waiting to hear back, but for now, my ttfb via catchpoing is about a second. So much improved. Not sure exactly what I did, but I’ve been blindly tweaking settings that seem relevant and I must’ve stumbled onto something somewhere . . . Mobile is still a little slower, but it’s much better than before.
I’ll see what cloudflare and my host say about servers.
J
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