Looking to hire someone to help with Google Page Speed Insights and Core Web Vitals

**fuzebox** · 06-18-2021, 08:39 AM

You are going to make yourself crazy trying to win Google Page Speed on Wordpress...

**zzzxxx** · 06-18-2021, 01:13 PM

I don't see a way to edit my post.
sorry

I see I screwed up.
I should have posted this here:
gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-services-market/
to the jobs and services market

Maybe someone can move it?

**Freedom6995** · 06-18-2021, 01:16 PM

I tried hiring that big co. that was stickied here and they were clueless.
I tried hiring someone from Fiverr and they were useless.
So I rolled up my sleeves and dug in.
97 mobile / 99 desktop
Wordpress

"Things like "Avoid chaining critical requests 33 chains found" and all similar stuff in Page Insights section."

This doesn't matter:
DiagnosticsMore information about the performance of your application. These numbers don't directly affect the Performance score.
Avoid an excessive DOM size 1,153 elements
Avoid chaining critical requests 2 chains found

**sarettah** · 06-18-2021, 09:32 PM

Originally posted by zzzxxx

I don't see a way to edit my post.
sorry

I see I screwed up.
I should have posted this here:
gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-services-market/
to the jobs and services market

Maybe someone can move it?

You are better off leaving it here.

Welcome to the zoo.

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**trevesty** · 06-19-2021, 04:07 AM

Originally posted by fuzebox

You are going to make yourself crazy trying to win Google Page Speed on Wordpress...

Why? There's literally plugins that will fix all of that if he just clicks "download" then "install" then "activate".

Assuming it's not a super bloated install full of useless shit, anyway.

**plsureking** · 06-19-2021, 06:55 AM

did u try pingdom? their reports will show what exactly is slowing things down.

https://tools.pingdom.com/

when i get a ticket for slow site, that's the first thing i check. content slows the site down. its very common to find 1-2mb slider images added by clients lol

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**WiredGuy** · 06-19-2021, 08:46 AM

There is an API version of Google Pagespeed Insights that provides a very detailed breakdown along with links on what they are looking for in each point to get that individual metric up. I highly suggest trying it out so you can pinpoint what the real issues are. Link: https://developers.google.com/speed/...v5/get-started

For example, the background and foreground contrast ratios is one of the points that can drive you nuts if you don't know the metric they are looking for:
Weight: 3 BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND COLORS HAVE A SUFFICIENT CONTRAST RATIO
Score: 0 (Value: 0)
Comment: Low-contrast text is difficult or impossible for many users to read. [Learn more](https://web.dev/color-contrast/).

WG

**trevesty** · 06-19-2021, 09:18 AM

Originally posted by WiredGuy

There is an API version of Google Pagespeed Insights that provides a very detailed breakdown along with links on what they are looking for in each point to get that individual metric up. I highly suggest trying it out so you can pinpoint what the real issues are. Link: https://developers.google.com/speed/...v5/get-started

For example, the background and foreground contrast ratios is one of the points that can drive you nuts if you don't know the metric they are looking for:
Weight: 3 BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND COLORS HAVE A SUFFICIENT CONTRAST RATIO
Score: 0 (Value: 0)
Comment: Low-contrast text is difficult or impossible for many users to read. [Learn more](https://web.dev/color-contrast/).

WG

Yep, and this is the only tool that matters for this. You can also check using Lighthouse in Chrome's console. Pingdom, etc., are great tools for their purpose, but not at all useful for this.

**J. Falcon** · 06-24-2021, 03:02 AM

Bump for you.

**mechanicvirus** · 06-25-2021, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by trevesty

Why? There's literally plugins that will fix all of that if he just clicks "download" then "install" then "activate".

Assuming it's not a super bloated install full of useless shit, anyway.

Personally attacked over here

, but yea wordpress is pretty good with site speed these days. I managed to solve about 80% of the problems with either plugins or stupidly easy code changes.