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brod | 6 years ago

Painfully ironic that the static landing page for a service offering to improve website performance (by adding more technology) scores a miserable 66% on mobile and 90% on desktop with Google's PageSpeed Insights[0]. I honestly didn't realise static sites could score so poorly.

I'm assuming this is targeted at a non-technical audience (although posting to HN would suggest otherwise), but I suppose it could provide some benefit under ideal conditions.

Including a 24kb font for the three "pep" letters in the heading just tops off the eternal face-palming. Incredible.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

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grun|6 years ago

Thank you for the great criticism. Iterating in real time while answering questions here.

Lighthouse score is now 91%.

* https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200227_RM_75b0bc807f4fc90...

brod|6 years ago

Well done, it's a neat idea and if the service can provide a measurable improvement I think it's worthwhile to pursue further.

Seeing the service in action would really help both technical and non-technical audiences, I need to know it's not going to be a liability and my clients would want to see pretty colours / improvements.

Something like "before.pep.dev" and "after.pep.dev" would be great.