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Our own homepage scored 54 on mobile. Here is how we got it to 99.
We build fast sites for clients. Then we ran PageSpeed on our own homepage and got 54 on mobile.
Three things were doing most of the damage:
1) An autoplaying 4K hero film. It was about 21 MB of a 22 MB page.
2) Google Tag Manager. It alone blocked the main thread for around 4 seconds.
3) A booking widget loading its scripts and cookies on every visit.
What we changed:
• The film became a small poster image. The video now starts on the visitor's first interaction.
• Tags load on first interaction or after 5 seconds. No tag was removed.
• The booking widget is gone.
• Images are served as AVIF and WebP in the right size.
Result on the mobile homepage: 54 to 99. Page weight went from about 22 MB to about 0.5 MB. Total Blocking Time went from 4,740 ms to 30 ms.
One caveat: lab scores move. The same page scored between 86 and 99 on the same day, so we report the median of three runs.
Full write-up with every number: https://codevibe.in/case-studies/website-speed-optimization
If your site feels slow, the hero video and the tag manager are the first two places I would look.
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Website Speed Case Study: PageSpeed 54 to 99 | Codevibe
How Codevibe took its own Next.js site from 54 to 99 on mobile PageSpeed and 100 on desktop: 22,563 KiB to 530 KiB, blocking time 4.7 s to 30 ms.
54 to 99 is wild. the cobblers kids have no shoes thing is so real lol
A closer look at Relay’s landing page.
My first question was: if someone lands here with no context, will they know what Relay does before they scroll?From there, I thought about what they’d need to see before taking the next step.
Clean design!
Comment TEMPLATE and I'll send you my landing page framework for free. 👇
Not every landing page should look the same!!
We A/B tested long vs. short opt-in pages for the same freebie opt in page...
And short won almost every time versus traditional long form pages (but not always!)
Don't follow a generic prescription. Test what works for YOUR audience, and use the framework as your starting place.
Short opt-in pages winning almost every time makes sense, less to read before the form. What was the case where the long page won?