Being On 4 cores of Intel CPU there is significant drop of speed after i updated the discourse.
I recently Updated my discourse (its pgsql database was also updated) and now its very very slow. 8GB Digital Ocean Droplet.
Results Before this update were - Mobile 75/100
I do not have any extra javascript in the page, when i tested, No Alexa, Webmaster etc scripts. Its a serious issue in Google SEO.
Discourse Team Can you please release a light version with less features for Better speed and Performance.
Or
Please guide me how can i improve upon it.
I also feels the speed difference when i Browse My own site old/new version in incognito mode (Not tested with google.)
I don’t think it would be a good idea to nuke out functionality of discourse in the name of Google pagespeed insights. In my personal opinion, pagespeed insights don’t really focus upon SEO but they rather focus upon the UX of a website.
First load may be a problem (only because all the resources are being loaded from server instead of cache) but once that’s done, there shouldn’t be any performance penalty.
Note that in your tests, Google wasn’t even able to provide an accurate metric of real-world performance… and only looked at possible optimizations. Those possible optimizations don’t seem to take into consideration that Discourse is a JS app.
I think the team is always looking for ways to make Discourse faster… but there’s little evidence that this is a serious SEO issue. Here’s some information from Google on their 2018 Page Speed Update, which is probably the most significant impact Page Speed Score has ever made on ranking:
The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used to build the page. The intent of the search query is still a very strong signal, so a slow page may still rank highly if it has great, relevant content.
So on the one hand, they don’t care that we’re a JS app and apply the same standard to everyone (potentially something to look out for)… but on the other hand this change only impacts a small percentage of queries and content relevance is still the primary metric for ranking.
I also feels the speed difference when i Browse My own site old/new version in incognito mode
Are you able to provide any additional details? Which version were you on previously? Did you use any of the Network tools in the Chrome inspector to measure load speed?
None of the recommendations are really relevant to us, sure we can shave off a few bytes from avatars and some tiny js scripts, but there is nothing substantial here.
Ich mache mir weniger Sorgen um die Page Speed Score und mehr um die Ergebnisse des Chrome User Experience Reports… Ich sehe dieselben Beschwerden auch auf meiner Seite… Ich würde mich freuen, wenn jemand Tipps hat, wie man das tatsächliche Nutzererlebnis schneller gestalten kann, da dies letztendlich dazu führt, dass Besucher mit Ihrer Seite interagieren (schnelles Laden), anstatt auf die Zurück-Taste zu klicken (langsames Laden)… Diese Absprünge senden ein Signal an Google, dass die Leute nicht finden, was sie auf der Seite suchen, und das führt zu Ranking-Verlusten – nicht der Page Speed Score selbst. Edit: Ich vermute, Google sagt zwar, dass es die Geschwindigkeit selbst als Ranking-Faktor verwendet, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher, welche Metrik genau dafür ausschlaggebend ist.
Also, ich nehme an, diese Site nutzt Fastly als CDN, hat aber trotzdem die Bewertung „langsam“ im Chrome User Experience Report erhalten. Ist es vielleicht einfach unmöglich, selbst mit einem CDN auf eine Bewertung von „mäßig“ oder „schnell“ zu kommen? Vermutlich liegt das an der Natur so vieler dynamischer Inhalte…
