Improving Google Page Speed Insights

A trend of increasing traffic to my site from mobile

This site has never been optimised for mobile. There hasn’t been a need. However, 15% of traffic is now from mobile devices, compared with just 2% in 2016.

Using the fantastic Google PageSpeed Insights, it can be seen where the site has potential for improvement. A score of 48 out of 100 is just awful for mobile.

Even on desktop, there is an opportunity to improve from a score of 93.

What Improvement Was Achieved by Removing Disqus from the Static Site?

As you can see, after removing the Disqus comments script from the site, the mobile performance is now 95 out of 100. That’s an improvement of almost 50!

Crucially, the Disqus script is no longer impacting page load performance.

And amazingly, the desktop performance is now at 100!