Using Google Page Speed: What is the fastest real estate website (or website in general) that you’ve seen.
Hey Renee,
In your case: Overall you have a few themes:
#1: You have a lot on the page. Multiple kinds of property snippets, a whole lot of images, inline tabbed search there is a lot going on. Sometimes less is more (certainly for speed)
#2: Images are a big issue for you. A lot of the “lot” that you do have is heavily dependent on images, and a lot of your images are not well optimized for size (they are bigger than they need to be in order to still render well).
#3: Superfluous code. Because you brought over an old site (or maybe you put this on the new site) you have code that is external or doesn’t necessary need to be there. Example, what the heck is a “widgetbe.com”
There are some WPO optimizations you could do like lazy loading etc, to get this up, but I’d clean up the old code, and optimize the images first. Maybe not have multiple property snippets (or so many properties in each snippet) showing at once.
Mobile is a different story. Google continues to get more rigorous (has higher expectations) on this. Largest contentful paint is a big one for everyone who hasn’t done WPO in say the past 3 months or so (there is new emphasis) and honestly anything above mentioned as an issue on the web will be exacerbated on mobile (conversely if you fix them you get an equal benefit on mobile as well).
That would be a good place to start.
Just diving a bit deeper into mobile, your largest contentful paint and your speed index are definitely your culprits (and likely linked), both are also likely affected by “too much big stuff”
Thank you for sharing the feedback!
- What are the optimal image sizes?
- We are unaware of any code that would have been added to our new site and/or transferred from our previous site. Is code added in any way during the site upgrade / transfer?
Hello Renee,
No, we don’t add any external sourcing codes at all. The only thing “generally” the system facilitates is Google analytics through the tools menu, but that widgebe, etc never heard of it,. we assume it was added in a previous version and then brought over when you migrated (who knows)
As for image size, on Renaissance I do 2000 x 900 but your site is custom so might have to check. I’m more talking about image “filesize” though (as in how many “bytes”) and the answer to that is, optimize it as small as you can go filesize wise while still maintaining quality.
Hi Morgan,
Thank you for the feedback. When we launched last year, I did not realize the new community page designs had too much going on. (snippets, images, inlined tabbed search). If we need to redesign the pages to improve the speed, maybe it is time to take a look at a refresh to the page designs again.
I do not know where superfluous code would be coming from. What do we do to correct this?