Fetch as Google

[seoman10]

I have odd scenario I don't know if anyone can help?

I've done some serious speed optimisation on a website, amongst other things CDN and caching.  However when I do a Search Console Fetch As Google It is still showing 1.7 seconds download time even though the cached content seems to be delivered in less than 200 ms.

The site is using SSL which obviously creams off a bit of speed, but I still don't understand the huge discrepancy.

Could it be that Google somehow is forcing the server to deliver fresh content despite settings to deliver cache?

Thanks in advance

[seoman10]

Yes, that's interesting.  I had wondered if it was something like that.
The biggest change I made was only two or three days ago, it's only a small lower authority site so therefore likely wouldn't have been re-crawled yet.

[mememax]

I think that fetch as google returns the performance it already has on the page last time googlebot went there, so if you have applied changes lately it could take a day or two to google bot to recrawl the page and get the changes you've done. When did you do the change? can you let us know if after a couple of days the issue was solved?

[DonnaDuncan]

I personally like using this tool (webpagetest.org) and this Moz article (https://moz.com/blog/the-seo-professional-s-guide-to-waterfall-diagrams) to help diagnose speed problems. See if they help shed any light on what you're observing.

[Harry_TheClickHub]

What page load time are you seeing with other tools, i.e. Moz toolbar?

[seoman10]

It shows an outstanding result!  But no specific detail, It just says the server responded quickly!  Typical.

[Harry_TheClickHub]

Hello!

Are you able to compare the scores from PageSpeed Insights tool for before and after you optimised the web page?

This may flag elements that are slowing Google's fetch.