Title: Google Website Speed Test Issues
Last modified: May 25, 2017

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# Google Website Speed Test Issues

 *  [Chad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chadi/)
 * (@chadi)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-website-speed-test-issues/)
 * Got 54/100 on mobile speed and 56/100 on desktop when I ran Google’s testmysite.
   thinkwithgoogle.com test.
 * My htaccess is currently the below, so I’m baffled.
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
   
       <IfModule mod_gzip.c>
       mod_gzip_on Yes
       mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
       mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
       mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
       mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
       mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
       mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
       </IfModule>
   
       ## BEGIN GZIP Compression ##
       <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
       </IfModule>
       ## END GZIP Compression ##
   
       ## BEGIN Leverage Browser Caching (Expires Caching) ##
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
       ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
       ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
       </IfModule>
       ## END Leverage Browser Caching (Expires Caching) ##
   
       ## BEGIN Disable ETag header ##
       Header unset Pragma
       Header unset ETag
       FileETag None
       ## END Disable ETag header ##
   
       ## BEGIN Vary: Accept-Encoding Header ##
       <IfModule mod_headers.c>
       <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">
       Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
       </FilesMatch>
       </IfModule>
       ## END Vary: Accept-Encoding Header ##
       ```
   
 * Errors from Results:
 *     ```
       Enable compression
       Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
       Leverage browser caching
       Optimize images
       Minify CSS
       ```
   
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by [Chad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chadi/).

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 *  [auludag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auludag/)
 * (@auludag)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-website-speed-test-issues/#post-9168287)
 * I am no Apache expert though i can speak general approach about Google Page test.
 * A caching plugin and lazyloading deferring methods would help with first 3.
 * for images: you probably use wrong dimensions of your images and this affects
   your page loading time and your score.
 * for css: you can use a plugin to minify CSS though you need to be careful because
   it can break the look of site.
 * So the same site also creates optimized version of the images and css files. 
   if you are expert those will help.
 * if you are not expert, look at the plugins autoptimize (css part) and Wp smush(
   image part) which could help.
 *  Thread Starter [Chad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chadi/)
 * (@chadi)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-website-speed-test-issues/#post-9214300)
 * I installed the below plugins prior and no noticeable changes in pagespeed score.
 * Autoptimize
    W3 Total Cache
 *  [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-website-speed-test-issues/#post-9214338)
 * > no noticeable changes in pagespeed score.
 * the overall pagescore is a way to try to quantify how much you adhere to the 
   best practices, it’s pretty useless when taken out of context. the interesting
   things are the recommendations you see there. W3TC & AO will be able to help 
   with some of those reco’s (some configuration might be required, see [AO’s FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/faq)
   for pointers about e.g. render blocking CSS), but for other you might need other
   solutions (plugins).
 * happy optimizig,
    frank (ao dev)

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