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Hi CrouchingBruin ~~~ “this thread” is very interesting. The results for W3 are so vastly different. It may or may not be important, but the person with the best results also seems to grasp English better. I used to be like that, but now… I do wonder if the problem is that my “grasp” is causing me to do something wrong.

BytesForAll, basically that’s where I found your Lady Eagles site. That’s how I knew I could get a yellow background. Mostly, though, the answers there seem directed at people with more familiarity with tech. Of the posts I read, most were above my level of comprehension…

Maybe if I figure out how to phrase the question there, I can get a reply that I can follow… I do think that in many cases how a question is asked makes a difference in how the question is answered…

I mean, it looks as if people are improving their speed dramatically by knowing a little more tech than I know…

thank you a lot for the references.

Karen

Really grateful to you CrouchingBruin ~~

I worked on my site for ages… trying things and combinations of things. You make me feel brave, because I feel sure that if I totally weird out my site, you’ll help me put it right.

The work has improved my understanding of things… not to any great pinnacle of understanding, but a bit better. I’m happy with the improvement.

The Object Cache thing may have to do with why the black bar on top of my site no longer has icons… think that could be it?

OH, how do I reduce the space on top of the page name when a page opens up?

http://www.health-boundaries.com/

I’m thinking that the reason I don’t have any income from mobile views of my pages is that the Google ads aren’t immediately visible. So, if I had just a little less white space I could put one after the first paragraph on a number of pages, instead of all of them being in the sidebar or way down in the footer…. Though, that will probably reduce my page speed…. how interwoven it all is…

OH OH ~~~ My site no longer shows up on the PageSpeed Insights …. and suddently the scores are even worse. I think it could be because W3 asked me to remove something… and I did…

Luckily I asked you about it, or I’d not have any way of knowing what I did…

This is what I did:

“The Object Cache add-in file object-cache.php is not a W3 Total Cache drop-in. Remove it or disable Object Caching. “

Oh dear, I forgot, I also signed up for Amazon CloudFront… but that didn’t ask me for my site name… so maybe that’s the problem… I indicated in W3 that I was using Amazon CloudFront

Wow, that made 14 points of difference. And, I can see how my site loads differently now. Thank YOU!!!

But, I’m now getting a new message about what I should fix:

Should Fix:
Leverage browser caching

Interestingly, I used to have 5 passes rules, and now have only 3.

The problem with render blocking has been moved to an amber alert, rather than red.

I think my Desktop score got worse, but I can’t be sure.

Do you use the W3 total cache thing? When I installed and activated it, if I used all the options my site loaded as a blank yellow page. So I unchecked options until my content loaded. Recently W3 had a major update… maybe if I go back and check it out, I can get rid of the minify problems, which are myriad at the moment… Any thoughts??? (on this, clearly you have a very active mind…)

Karen

The “some users” is really interesting. Thanks!!!

Hi CrouchingBruin ~ Sigh. I know google indexes my site. I used to get nearly a thousand visitors a day. Now I get, with luck, 300 visitors a day. The thing is, the mobile part of my site appears not to be working. I get a really good score on the desktop version, and I get almost all my income from that. Whereas I used to get half or more from Mobile, and that was before I had a responsive site.

So, something’s wrong… I did the things you suggested last time I asked about this … I think I asked differently.

I have such a hard time seeing how to do the suggestions. I think it’s because the whole time I could barely walk my thinking deteriorated. There’s a link between exercise and a well functioning brain. So now, I have a really hard time keeping thoughts together. Sometimes even from the beginning of a sentence to the end of the same sentence. Sigh.

I’m much better and can begin to do the exercises that in the past helped, but… recovery is slow and I’d like to fix this now…

I’ve been more able to follow your directions that those of most other sources of help, that’s why I asked again here.

This is what the Google analyzer suggests:

Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Your page has 11 blocking script resources and 2 blocking CSS resources. This causes a delay in rendering your page.
None of the above-the-fold content on your page could be rendered without waiting for the following resources to load. Try to defer or asynchronously load blocking resources, or inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.

Remove render-blocking JavaScript:
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…cludes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=3.8.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.10.2
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…s/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…uery/ui/jquery.ui.core.min.js?ver=1.10.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…ry/ui/jquery.ui.widget.min.js?ver=1.10.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…ry/ui/jquery.ui.effect.min.js?ver=1.10.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…p-includes/js/quicktags.min.js?ver=3.8.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…zuma/javascript/smooth-menu.js?ver=3.8.3
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…ploads/montezuma/javascript.js?ver=3.8.3
http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/…s,qver=201417.pagespeed.ce._38GSuPULB.js
http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/…m/e-201417.js.pagespeed.ce.t_fyQf1fOC.js

Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:
http://www.health-boundaries.com/wp-content/uploads/montezuma/style.css
http://www.health-boundaries.com/…opper/interface/css/public.css?ver=3.8.3

It tells how to do it, but despite reading the instructions repeatedly, I can’t work out what to do…

Remove Render-Blocking JavaScripts

This rule triggers when PageSpeed Insights detects that your HTML references a blocking external JavaScript file in the above-the-fold portion of your page.
Overview

Before a browser can render a page to the user, it has to parse the page. If it encounters a blocking external script during parsing, it has to stop and download that Javascript. Each time it does that, it is adding a network round trip, which will delay the time to first render of the page.
Recommendations

JavaScript needed to render the above-the-fold region should be inlined, and JavaScript needed to add additional functionality to the page should be deferred until after the above-the-fold content has been delivered. Please keep in mind that for this to improve your loading time, you must also Optimize the CSS Delivery.
Inline Small JavaScript

If the external scripts are small, you can include them directly into the HTML document. Inlining small files in this way allows the browser to proceed with rendering the page. For example, if the HTML document looks like this:

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="small.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div>
      Hello, world!
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

And the resource small.js is like this:

/* contents of a small JavaScript file */
Then you can inline the script as follows:

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      /* contents of a small JavaScript file */
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div>
      Hello, world!
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

This eliminates the external request for small.js by placing it inline in the HTML document.

Defer loading of JavaScript

To prevent JavaScript from blocking page loading, we recommend using the HTML async attribute when loading JavaScript. For example:

<script async src=”my.js”>
If your JavaScript resources use document.write, it is not safe to use asynchronous loading. We recommend that scripts that use document.write be rewritten to use a different technique.

Additionally, when loading JavaScript asynchronously, if your page loads scripts that depend on one another, care must be taken to make sure that your application loads scripts in the proper dependency order.

FAQ

What if I am using a JavaScript library such as jQuery?
Many JavaScript libraries, such as JQuery, are used to enhance the page to add additional interactivity, animations, and other effects. However, many of these behaviors can be safely added after the above-the-fold content is rendered. Investigate moving the execution and loading of such JavaScript until after the page is loaded.
What if I’m using a JavaScript framework to construct the page?
If the content of the page is constructed by client-side JavaScript, then you should investigate inlining the relevant JavaScript modules to avoid extra network roundtrips. Similarly, leveraging server-side rendering can significantly improve first page load performance: render JS templates on the server, inline the results into HTML, and then use client-side templating once the application is loaded. For more information on server-side rendering, see http://youtu.be/VKTWdaupft0?t=14m28s.

Hi CrouchingBruin, Ah ha, so that’s how it works!!!

This gives me a lot to work with, thank you!!!!

Ah yes, mold. With all the insulation taken out there doesn’t appear to be any mold, but the boards are still wet, so the ceiling is open. I’m constantly getting sand and stuff in my hair in the kitchen at present… not ideal…