WebPageTest

Schanulleke · 01-07-2018, 12:05 AM

Hi there,

I'm new here. I just runned some tests for https://businessblogschool.nl and I made a video of it. I'm not happy at all with the results?!

For now my question is: at 5s all content seems to be loaded except the video in my header. From then it takes 4s at least before the embedded Vimeo video is shown.

How can I decrease that loading time? Is it correct that the header video is one of the major problems with my site?

Thanks in advance for helping me out!

Jessie

avalanch · (This post was last modified: 01-08-2018 06:12 AM by avalanch.)

Give this article a try for deferring videos.
https://varvy.com/pagespeed/defer-videos.html

As you can see on my test results, I have not 1 but 3 youtube videos on one page. 4.2 seconds to load it all & A's across the board.
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/18010...6979c6770/

Schanulleke · 01-08-2018, 07:26 AM

Thank you Avalanch! The iframe is part of the php-file, so it's not a normal iframe. I guess that's why I couldn't use everything from Varvy (I tried but then the whole page was loaded in the iframe). But the part with javascript at the bottom of the page I applied. It seems to do a little with the pagespeed.

Will compressing the video help to increase my pagespeed?

avalanch · (This post was last modified: 01-08-2018 07:57 AM by avalanch.)

I don't think compressing the video will have any affect, since none of the video should be loaded until the user clicks play.

Instead, I would recommend you use this as a base to go from. Mainly the Defer parsing of JavaScript part of it.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/businessblo...l/duH2gbTd

I'm not too familiar with wordpress but this might be what you want, with the ability to exclude javascripts.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/async-javascript/