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[Smush Pro] Page Speed insights

yes , i tesdet the mobile site on: https://developers.example.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=de&url=http%3A%2F%2Fderhundeflo.at%2F
and they prefer to install the Smush Pro to get faster pictures and page load
so i ordered the smash pro but i also have the same bad page speed insights like before
have you an idea why the plugin don´t change the mobile performane, thank you very much & best regards Thomas

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:50:20
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  • Adam
    • Support Gorilla

    Hello Theresa Scharler

    I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!

    Smush Pro is an image optimization plugin and it won’t “magically fix all the performance” but yes – it should help, often (that depends on the particular page and the images used on it) quite significantly. That’s, however, only one aspect that affect performance and PageSpeed Insights score.

    I checked the site and run some tests on it. I could see that mobile score was quite low with some images being reported – though even when I tried to enable CDN option in Smush plugin, the same images remained unaffected. That means that such images are included on site in a way that prevents Smush from processing them – which is usually due to how given theme works and/or how other plugins affect generated pages source.

    In this case though there’s something else that caught my attention and that doesn’t seem quite right: whatever changes I would do, the score didn’t improve but even went down and, after reverting all the changes the score is still lower than it was. That is – while at the same time the site itself loads/renders (on both desktop and mobile device for me) reasonably fast (certainly “visually” faster than the PageSpeed test suggests).

    I can also see that in addition to Avada’s CSS/JS optimization options being enabled there’s also Autoptimize installed and Cache Enabler plugin running. Plus – it’s Avada’s child theme so that suggests it’s a custom theme which might have some important customization in code that also affects this.

    Taking that all into account, I think Smush Pro alone won’t be a solution here and there’s a bit more to do there. Can you tell me please: are you aware if there is any additional cache involved – server-side cache? And if there is, do you have a way to clear it and, possibly, disable (at least temporarily)?

    Would you be willing to try to optimize the site with our Hummingbird instead of current “Autoptimize” + “Cache Enabler” combo?

    Best regards,
    Adam