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Meh, these tests are just good ways to find obvious problems with your site. Fixating on the overall score seems like an indication of a different problem. Fo
by wild_preference 8y ago
Meh, these tests are just good ways to find obvious problems with your site.
Fixating on the overall score seems like an indication of a different problem.
For example, you can't change the caching behavior of google-analytics.js, and it's usually intractable to split apart your CSS to optimize for above-the-fold content. Oh well, you didn't get a perfect score. Stay practical.
- partiallypro 8y agoTry selling that to a client that keeps using the test against a site that is A rated everywhere else because Google's brand has fooled them into thinking a perfect score means better SEO.
- arkitaip 8y agoTrue. This is like when movie studios start obsessing about the Metacritic ranking on their movies instead of focusing on the quality of the movies.
- savethefuture 8y agoThis is a problem we run into, clients will run their site through a speed tester then give us a list of things to fix...without having a clue of what the ratings and results even mean.
- wild_preference 8y agoRight, that would be an example of a "different problem." I'd be hard pressed to let stupid things client/managers can do direct how this sort of tool should work. For example, it'd be silly to demand "score inflation" just because your client is unreasonable. Or rather, if a client is making your life hard, I don't think it's the world that needs to change. What's your solution if your client measures your success by punching their website into https://www.worthofweb.com/calculator/ https://www.worthofweb.com/calculator/? And doesn't take you seriously enough to listen to you in general?