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by majewsky 3493 days ago
Interesting. I put my own blog (link in my profile) into there, and it scored only 90/100 on mobile. Google now wants to talk me into enabling compression and caching on a website that is literally 4.98 KB large (including all assets).
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I got 91/100 mobile, 90/100 desktop for a site that is 4.95kb.

Reasons?

* Apparently the HTML should be minified.

* Apparently I should use gzip, because 4.95kb is too big.

* The inline styles are below the content to prevent showing the user nothing as it paints. Google thinks the 594 bytes of styles needs to be in a separate request.

I think insights is pretty useless at analysing sites below a certain size threshold.

At these sizes, network latency is the biggest drain on loading a page... Which effectively means users don't notice loading times when they click a link.