Site Not Mobile Friendly & Fails Speed Test
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Hi. I’m hoping you can help me know how to solve these problems with my site, which has 3 URLs directed to it, JanaBouc.Wordpress.com, JanasJournal.com and JanaBouc.com.
1. When I use the google test to see if site is mobile friendly I get a “NOT” mobile friendly when I put in janabouc.com here. It also says there are speed problems.
2. When I put in janabouc.wordpress.com it passes the mobile test but fails the speed test.
3. Janasjournal.com says it’s Mobile Friendly but fails the speed test.
Thanks,
JanaThe blog I need help with is janasjournal.com.
Hi Jana,
I just ran a few tests on my end, and your site passes the test over here. (See here: http://cl.ly/am5t). It looks like the theme also passes the test as it should. (See here: http://cl.ly/amnf)
There is something funny with the janabouc.com domain though. As you can see, it does not pass the test, and the preview isn’t the mobile preview. (See here: http://cl.ly/am4A) This wouldn’t be the theme though, rather something that’s going on with that domain and how Google is testing it. Since your other domains are passing fine, I would say it’s not a problem.
However, you may want to look into redirecting those multiple domains to one single domain. Instead of the site being available at all domains, it should be forwarding to a single domain. That may be something you can have the WP.com staff help with. I’ll tag them here to take a look.
Thanks M. for the quick reply! You guys are great! Will WP staff respond or do I need to ask them directly for help re that redirect?
Did you look at the speed test links I sent? My site (all of the urls) didn’t do well with the speed test, especially re images that weren’t compressing properly and pages were doing something I didn’t understand that required extra html work. I’m sure you’ll know what they’re talking about.
It looks like janabouc.com is not actually mapped to your WordPress.com site. The only domain that’s mapped is janasjournal.com.
The DNS for janabouc.com is pointing to Network Solutions:
NS97.WORLDNIC.COM
NS98.WORLDNIC.COMYou may be using some sort of redirect or forwarding on Network Solutions’ end, but that doesn’t work properly on the WordPress.com side.
You can map the domain to your site properly at https://wordpress.com/plans – click the “Add a domain” button at the top right and follow the prompts.
More info here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
Thank you @kathrynwp and @mmcalister. I bought the additional domain mapping and repointed it on the domain host and now janabouc.com passed the google mobile test.
M, what about the speed/image compression issues? Is there something I need to do there?
Kathryn, the link you sent didn’t actually have the “add a domain” option there. I had to go to a different page after reading the support pages.
Thanks,
JanaHi Jana, glad you found the spot to add a new domain. You may not have seen it at that URL since you already had a domain on the site, sorry about that!
What specific errors are you getting related to your images, and for which page? WordPress.com compresses images automatically to speed up the delivery of your content, but if you have a specific page with many images on it, you might want to compress your images first in a graphics program to reduce file size.
I replied to your email from WP and wondered why I didn’t get a response. Apparently my reply didn’t make it to this forum so here it is:
Here’s the info from the speed test about the css and image compression issues–site only gets a score of 59/100.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=Janabouc.com&tab=mobile
And when I google speed test janabouc.wordpress.com it only scores 52/100 and has more errors needing fixing:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2FJanabouc.wordpress.com%2FOn the mobile side, this issue is in your control:
Optimize the following images to reduce their size by 127.7KiB (15% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/20130320-bus.jpg could save 41.9KiB (12% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…brazil-raw-george.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 35.1KiB (15% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/20150504-edim-3-4.jpg?w=770 could save 29.2KiB (15% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…107-img_2258-ups1.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 21.5KiB (24% reduction).If you wanted, you could compress those images in a graphics program and re-upload them. I’m not sure saving 127KB of file size is that significant, but it’s certainly something you can do.
On the desktop side, I think resizing/compressing these images is worth doing, as it would be a more significant reduction.
Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data.
Optimize the following images to reduce their size by 505.1KiB (50% reduction).Compressing and resizing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…brazil-raw-george.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 223.7KiB (94% reduction).
Compressing and resizing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…107-img_2258-ups1.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 87.1KiB (93% reduction).
Compressing and resizing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…hiskey_001-psedit.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 74.4KiB (92% reduction).
Compressing and resizing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/…rder-still-life-1.jpg?w=700&h=525&crop=1 could save 48.7KiB (87% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/20130320-bus.jpg could save 41.9KiB (12% reduction).
Losslessly compressing https://janabouc.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/20150504-edim-3-4.jpg?w=770 could save 29.2KiB (15% reduction).You can learn more here about image optimization: https://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/
The other issues, such as caching, minification, and server response time, are not something in your control. We already cache, concatenate, and minify all scripts, so I’m not sure why Google’s report does not reflect this.
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