Pagespeed drop on https

[Tymen]

Hi all,

Since I have moved from http to https my pagespeed has dropped. My hosting company/ programmer say this is normal but I am not happy with the results.

Before: mobile 69 desktop 89

Now: Mobile: 52 desktop 69

Anybody experience with this issue? All help is welcome! Thank You in advance

Tymen

[TimHolmes]

Based on what I understand this is a quite normal side affect of going to https:// and in many cases the benefits you may have gained from performing multiple page speed upgrades, responsive edits etc may be reduced in there effectiveness from a page speed perspective.

However, and this is a big however, you will also benefit from an SEO stance from Google for using an encrypted protocol which is now considered a ranking factor, albeit a small one at press. Second to this, before too long many of the browsers will have fully adopted HTTP2 which is based on SPDY developed by Google and has apparently massive speed gains. In order to adopt HTTP2 you have to have already made the leap to using an SSL. HTTP2 allow you to load in parallel which will in turn give you much greater speeds going forward due to the request loading at the same time nd hence speeding things up even further..

Based on your current scores, I would imagine there are also a few more additional changes that you could make to further improve your sites speed whilst still using and SSL. CDN's, caching, compressing and more.

Use sites like tools.pingdom, gtmetrix, webpagetest.org to see what else can be improved.

Hope this offers some further insight.

[ThomasHarvey]

This is strange, what does google suggest on their pagespeed tool for you to do?

[GlobeRunner]

Tymen, there are different types of SSL certificates, and I understand that they can, in fact, be optimized so it will load quickly. You might point your web host/developers to the Google help topic(s) here for more information: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/https_support#load_from_file

Also, make sure that you're using a Content Deliver Network (CDN) when you can, and use caching, as well.

[Andrew_Birkitt]

Hi Tymen

It's not really my area of expertise but I have read a really good article on Moz about 'Enabling https without sacrificing your Web Performance' by Billy Hoffman that may be of some assistance.

https://moz.com/blog/enabling-https-without-sacrificing-web-performance

Hope it helps and good luck with improving things to your satisfaction.

Andy