Highly optimized score on GTmetrix but website still loads in 5 seconds?

[Caspooor]

As you see, very high score on performance, but still showing almost "5 seconds" to fully load!

I've been working lately to optimize my website as much as I could. And this is really annoying.

What could be the problem? Or is this normal?

 

[Mr Positive]

Check pingdom it’s more accurate

 

[Zshan]

Are you using CDN? if not then try it and check the loading time then. It also depend on the hosting you are using for your site.

 

[Caspooor]

Check pingdom it’s more accurate

I wish I hadn't lol

F on

Use cookie-free domains

Add Expires headers

Compress components with gzip

Are you using CDN? if not then try it and check the loading time then. It also depend on the hosting you are using for your site.

Yes, I'm using Cloudflare.

 

[Mr Positive]

I wish I hadn't lol

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F on

Use cookie-free domains

Add Expires headers

Compress components with gzip



Yes, I'm using Cloudflare.

try moving to Wpx or go for stackpath cdn

 

[FatBee]

Could be ads or other external resources.

Try prefetching them and see the results?
If you still have all these issues, try putting them in google tag manager so it won't do a shitload of requests.

 

[GangsterWilly]

Results are like this because GTMetrix shows total load time so your website could be already visible but in the background some captcha, add a network, or other 3rd party scripts are still being loaded.

I usually check by myself via chrome developer tools >> Network tab.
And once I see DOM elements loaded. I know that's the time when the website is being visible to the user.

 

[Caspooor]

Results are like this because GTMetrix shows total load time so your website could be already visible but in the background some captcha, add a network, or other 3rd party scripts are still being loaded.

I usually check by myself via chrome developer tools >> Network tab.
And once I see DOM elements loaded. I know that's the time when the website is being visible to the user.

It's showing whole different number. 1.46s ?

 

[MisterF]

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It's showing whole different number. 1.46s ?

Try this one too;

https://www.webpagetest.org/

 

[GangsterWilly]

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It's showing whole different number. 1.46s ?

Make sure you clean catch of everything related to this web in ur browser. It loads so quick cuz website is catched in ur browser. New visitors won't have it catches so load time will be worse.
In chrome when developer tools are open click on the refresh button with the right mouse button and select proper reload.

 

[rajkumar31]

I'm having the same issue as well. I am looking to move to WPX hosting to make the load time faster.