Insights from Google PageSpeed vs SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance

Google Pagespeed Insights is a tool that empowers you to make decisions that increase the performance of your website. Recommendations from Google Pagespeed are based upon current industry best practices for desktop and mobile web performance. Through the addition of advanced data visualization, tagging, filtering, and snapshot technology, Insights from Google PageSpeed provides a comprehensive solution for any webmaster looking to increase their site performance, their search engine ranking, and their visitors browsing experience. Detailed Page Reporting Sort your page reports by their Page Speed Score to prioritize the largest areas of opportunity on your site. Page reports utilize easy to read visualizations that allow you to quickly focus in on the most important data to improve your sites performance. Report Summaries Report Summaries are a powerful and exclusive feature of Insights from Google PageSpeed. Summaries display your average Page Score, largest areas for improvement across ALL reports, as well as best and lowest performing pages. Report summaries can be filtered to narrow results by: Pages, Posts, Categories, Custom URLs, and Custom Post Types. Using Report Summaries allows you to ‘zoom out’ from the page-level and better understand the big picture of your sites performance. Desktop and Mobile Page Reports Best practices for site performance differ greatly between Desktop and Mobile device usage. Configure Insights from Google PageSpeed to generate Desktop reports, Mobile reports, or both! Toggle back and forth between report types to see specific suggestions for improving the performance and experience on each platform. Report Snapshots The Report Snapshot tool builds on the power of Report Summaries, to provide historical “Point In Time” data about your website. Take a snapshot of any Report Summary screen to store that data for future retrieval. Add comments to your snapshots to provide additional meaning, such as “Before Installing W3 Total Cache.” Additionally, filter a Report Summary before taking a Snapshot to save a summary of the filtered data. Snapshot Comparison Tool The Snapshot Comparison Tool is an amazing utility that lets you visualize side-by-side results from any two similar Report Snapshots. Take a Report Snapshot before installing new plugins, or before implementing performance recommendations. Take another snapshot when you are finished and compare your results to measure the effect of your changes. Add/Import Custom URLs Easily add additional URLs for inclusion in Pagespeed Reports. Even add URLs for non-WordPress sites, even if they are not hosted on your server. URLs can be added manually, or upload a properly formatted XML sitemap to add multiple pages at once. Custom URLs can be tagged and filtered in Report Summaries. Take Report Snapshots of your Custom URLs just like you would with any other report type. Scheduled Report Checks Configure Insights from Google PageSpeed to automatically recheck your site on a Daily, Weekly, Bi-Monthly, or Monthly basis. With each scan, any new pages or posts will be discovered, and existing reports will be updated to reflect any changes to your site, as well as any changes in the Pagespeed recommendations. Additional Languages (v1.x translation) Russian Translation provided by: Ivanka from coupofy.com (v1.x translation) Spanish Translation provided by: Ogi Djuraskovic from firstsiteguide.com (v1.x translation) Serbian Translation provided by: Ogi Djuraskovic from firstsiteguide.com Troubleshooting Please find the below list of potential issues that you may encounter, and the recommended next steps. I entered my API Key and saved the Options, but no Reports are showing up in the Report List. Google Pagespeed needs to be able to load each page to create its report. Make sure that your pages are publicly accessible over the internet. Ensure that your API key is entered correctly, and that you have enabled the “PageSpeed Insights API” from the Google API Console. In the Options page, under “Advanced Configuration” there is a checkbox called “Log API Exceptions”. Any API exception that is not caught and handled automatically will be stored for up to 7 days. This log information can be very helpful when diagnosing issues. Page report checks never finish all of the way, I have to press “Start Reporting” again and again to get it to finish checking all of my pages. If the reports seem to always run for a certain length of time before stopping unexpectedly, you may be exceeding your servers Max Execution time. Try increasing the value in Options->Advanced Configuration “Maximum Execution Time”. Some web hosting providers do not allow the Maximum Execution Time to be overridden or increased. In that case you can try setting the Maximum Script Run Time. This will make the script run for the set period of time, then stop and spawn a new script, to get around timeout issues. Start with a low value, and test. Increase the value one step at a time until you find the largest value that allows your scans to finish successfully. An error was reported while trying to check one of my pages, and it has been added to the Ignored Pages section. Navigate to the Ignored Pages tab, find the page, and click “reactivate” to try it again. If the page fails again, ensure that the page is publicly accessible from the internet. Non-public pages cannot be checked. In some rare cases, pages are not able to be scanned by the Pagespeed API. Try checking your page manually here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/. If the page fails to be checked, report the issue to Google so that they can diagnose further. I received a Javascript or PHP error. If the error appeared while Google Pagespeed was checking pages, you may have loaded the page while it was storing data. Refresh the page in a couple seconds to see if the issue has gone away. If issues persist please report the problem with as much information as you can gather, including: What page you were on, the exact text of the error, or a screenshot of the error. In the Options page, under “Advanced Configuration” there is a checkbox called “Log API Exceptions”. Any API exception that is not caught and handled automatically will be logged for up to 7 days. This log information can be very helpful when diagnosing issues My Page Scores seem really low. When I click “Recheck Results” when viewing Report Details, the score jumps up dramatically. Your server may have been responding slowly when the first report was generated. A slow server response time can have a large impact on your Page Speed Score. If these problems happen frequently you may want to talk with your hosting provider about the problem, or look into alternative hosting providers. I want to clear out all of the current page reports and start over. Navigate to the “Options” tab Expand the “Advanced Configuration” section. Find the “Delete Data” Dropdown Select “Delete Reports Only” to remove all Page Reports Or Select “Delete EVERYTHING” to remove all Page Reports, Custom URLs, Snapshots, and Ignored Pages

SpeedyCache is a WordPress cache plugin that helps you improve performance of your WordPress site by caching, minifying, and compressing your website. You can find our official documentation at https://speedycache.com/docs. We are also active in our community support forums on wordpress.org if you are one of our free users. Our Premium Support Ticket System is at https://softaculous.deskuss.com Home Page | Support | Documents Other than caching SpeedyCache can also do the following:- 1. It can minify and combine CSS/JS giving even better optimization as it reduces the file sizes and reduces the HTTP requests to the server. 2. Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript resources helping your website to load faster. 3. Lazy load images so that the images can be requested only if they come into the viewport. 4. GZIP files to reduce the size of the file sent from the server. Free Features Caching: Storing copies of the web pages of the desktop version. Caching happens when a user visits a webpage on your website Preload: Preload makes sure the user always sees the cached version of your website as it periodically creates cache. Combine CSS: Combines CSS files present in the header of the page reducing HTTP requests. Minify CSS: Reduces the size of the CSS files. Automatic Cache: Creates cache of post when it gets deleted if preload is enabled. Combine JS: Combines JS files present in the header of the page reducing HTTP requests. GZIP: It applies GZIP compression on the files hence reducing the file size sent from the server. Browser Caching: Caches the website on the browser of the client for repeating visitors. DNS-Prefetch: DNS prefetch is a technique that improves website performance by resolving domain names in advance, before they are needed. Disable Emojis: You can remove the emoji inline CSS and wp-emoji-release.min.js. Exclude: You can exclude certain Pages, User-Agent, Cookies, CSS, or JS from being cached. CDN: CDN helps improve website speed by placing the static files of your cached on their network of servers hence helping deliver content faster at any point in the world. Display Swap: Adds display swap to Google font URL, so when Google font loads the font will stay visible this is enabled by default. Purge Varnish: If enabled it will purge Varnish cache, whenever cache from SpeedyCache is purged. Gravatar Cache: Host Gravatars on your server. *Improve Font Rendering:** Adding CSS property of text-rendering to prioritize speed of render of Fonts. GET SUPPORT AND PRO FEATURES Get professional support and more features to make your website load faster with SpeedyCache Pro Features:- Image Optimization: Image optimization is a way to convert an image to next-gen image formats like webp which load images faster on the web. Instant Page: It loads the page just before user clicks the link, reducing the page load time. Google Fonts: Google fonts are also seen as render-blocking so this feature helps load Google fonts asynchronously. Local Google Fonts: Cache the Google fonts to be compliant with the GDPR rules. Lazy Load: Loading all assets at once can make the page load slower hence lazy load helps by only loading certain resources when they come into the viewport. Minify HTML: It removes empty lines, line breaks, minifies inline Js And Css, removes comments and space in Tags Minify JS: Reduces JS file size. Delay JS: Delays the JS to load on user interaction to reduce or remove the issue of Unused JS. Advanced Combine JS: Combines JS files placed in the footer section helping reduce HTTP calls. Render blocking JS: Before rendering a page the browser parses the HTML to create a DOM tree and if an external script comes it has to stop and wait for the script to execute hence the rendering of the page ends up taking time, hence Render blocking JS feature helps in deferring the load of JS after the render has happened hence the first load get faster. Delete Cache Stats: Provides statistics about the cached files of Desktop or Mobile version and combined/ minified version of CSS and JS. Mobile Cache: Caches the mobile version of your website and shows that version on mobile devices. Database Cleanup: Database cleanup helps you free up your database storage from temporary data, trashed contents, and post revisions which may take a lot of your database storage. PreConnect: Preconnect improves website loading times by establishing early connections to third-party domains. Preload: Preload improves website performance by downloading resources in advance, before they are needed. Critical CSS: Extracts the CSS used by the page in the visible viewport at the time of load. Unused CSS: Removes the unused CSS, keeping the CSS that is being used by the paged, which reduces the size of CSS used on the page. Object Cache: It makes the object to persist by using Redis, to improve availability of the cache. Bloat Remover: Options to remove unnecessary features of WordPress or WooCommerce. Image Dimension: Adds dimensions to the image tag which does not have width or height, to reduce (CLS)Cumulative Layout Shift. Lazy Render HTML: User can lazy render HTML elements which are not in view-port. Preload Critical Images: Preload above-the-fold images to improve LCP(Largest Contentful paint). Caching SpeedyCache caches the website by creating static files on the server and delivers those static files to most of the users who visit the website, The static files eliminate the heavy load of Querying the database for data hence the load of your website is faster. You can preload as many pages as you want, and preloading caches the website in regular intervals of time to reduce the load on the server. Deleting Cache on New/updating Post. You can decide to delete the cache on the creation or updating of a post so that the cache can always stay updated. Minifying/Combining CSS and JS SpeedyCache helps minify the JS and CSS hence it reduces the file sizes. Combining JS combines the CSS and JS fines reducing the file count and making the server handle lesser requests. Cache Lifespan Cache Lifespan is a way to schedule the deletion of cache. Exclude Exclude is a way to prevent SpeedyCache from caching certain files/ user-agents/ cookies. CDN (Content Delivery Network) CDN helps you host your static content on a distributed network optimized to deliver internet content faster it’s not a replacement to a web host. It caches your files on the network edge and delivers the content to the user through the closest and fastest server. SpeedyCache helps you integrate a CDN by rewriting the URLs of the static files you want to host on the CDN or in the Case of Cloudflare it helps with the purging of the cache on the Cloudflare servers. [Pro] Image Optimization Image optimization is a way to convert your images from old formats like JPG and PNG to the new next-gen formats like webp which is designed with the web as the target platform to load images faster. webp images result in smaller and richer images that make the web faster. We provide 3 ways to convert your images to webp. GD(a PHP extension), Imagick(a PHP extension), and cwebp(a webp conversion utility from Google). [Pro] Bloat Remover SpeedyCache has 12 bloat removal options which are listed below. 1. Disable Dashicons 2. Update Heartbeat 3. Limit Post Revisions 4. Disable XML-RPC 5. Disable Google Fonts 6. Disable jQuery Migrate 7. Disable RSS feeds 8. Disable Gutenberg 9. Disable OEmbeds 10. Disable Block Editor CSS 11. Disable Cart Fragments 12. Disable WooCommerce Assets [Pro] Database Cleanup Data cleanup cleans the database by removing the following data:- 1. Post Revisions 2. Trashed Content 3. Trashed and Spam comments 4. Trackbacks and pingbacks 5. All Transient options 6. Expired Transient Options