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Faq How can i achieve a 100% score with Google PageSpeed in Wordpress?
How can i achieve a 100% score with Google PageSpeed in Wordpress?

Reaching a 100% score is a bit hard and in certain cases it's not enough to just use a plugin, performance could also be directly related to the server.
However, in most cases you can reach a score above 90, which is an optimal and perfectly reasonable result, remember that Google will mark sites as 'slow' if they have a score less than 50.
Having installed WPSpeed with optimizations enabled on an average server, most websites have been escalated from a score between 40 and 50 to a score greater than 90/95.

To reach a high score with a Wordpress website on the Google PageSpeed test, you should take care of the following best practices, all obtainable using the WPSpeed plugin:

  • Minify scripts: it's important to reduce the size of Javascript files as much as possible
  • Minify stylesheets: it's important to reduce the size of CSS files as much as possible
  • Minify HTML: the page source code can also be minified to reduce the total size and bandwidth usage
  • Combine assets: multiple CSS and Javascript files can be combined in single files, this method reduces the number of HTTP requests
  • Use Adaptive Contents: this is the unique technology that allows to build a separate lightweight version of the website for bots and PageSpeed tools
  • Optimize images: avoid to use heavy images that increase a lot the total page size
  • Use lazy-loading: images and iframes that are out of views can be loaded only when the user scrolls down the page to reveal them instead that on the page load
  • Take advantage of HTTP/2: the second version of the HTTP protocol includes several enhancements such as the preloading of resources
  • Use a CDN: you can setup a CDN service of your choice and make all assets loaded by Joomla to point to that external CDN instead that to your website
  • Activate the 'System - Page Cache' plugin of Joomla, or use a third-party plugin such as JotCache to cache the whole output to the browser

These aspects can be addressed by the Joomla plugin WPSpeed, as a result you could be able to reach a very high result in the Google PageSpeed test:
Google PageSpeed test with the Joomla plugin WPSpeed