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Does anybody know how much the actual load time factors into the "PageSpeed"? In my experience, you can have a site that loads quickly but gets a mediocre score

Does anybody know how much the actual load time factors into the "PageSpeed"? In my experience, you can have a site that loads quickly but gets a mediocre score because it violates Google's guidelines.

codedokode 9y ago
In my experience the most important is file size: HTML + CSS + JS + images (web fonts are not counted) so you can get the most by optimizing these files or tricking the tool.
ThrustVectoring 9y ago
It really depends on the specific site. The gold standard is to open up the network tab of your browser's debugger to dig into the runPageSpeed API call that gets used behind the scenes. Specifically, dig down to .formattedResults.ruleResults and look at the ruleImpact of each category. It's not an exact correspondence to points taken off of a score out of 100, but it's roughly proportional. That is, if you have a rule with a ruleImpact of 20 and another of a ruleImpact of 10, fixing the ruleImpact of 20 will have twice as good of a positive effect on your overall score.