Clients Slider wrecks my Lighthouse Score
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When I enable the clients slider, my performance score in Lighthouse drops from 87 to 30. What am I doing wrong?
With slider (mobile):
Without slider (mobile):
The images used in the slider are SVGs and the site in question is a staging site. I'll gladly send you the required login Data via a secure channel.
Thank you in advance! Best, August.
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I wanted to check it with PageSpeed to examine this more closely, but as it is password-protected, it does not display anything.
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I've sent you the Login data. Please delete the previous comment with the access data for the Frontend.
It is no Clients slider problem.
I made two tests of your website. First, with Clients slider:
Second without it:
As you can see, the results are pretty much the same.
As you might have noticed, the results differ from what you showed because I disabled all the plugins we do not support. You can find a list of supported plugins here:
https://support.muffingroup.com/documentation/bundled-plugins/#compatibility
Please, check the following link. There you will find instructions about how to improve the loading time for your website.
https://support.muffingroup.com/how-to/how-to-speed-up-my-site/
Following the tips mentioned in this guide should improve your website performance.
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Thank you for going to the length of disabling the plugins and having a look, but I have to respectfully disagree.
While the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin has a measurable impact on performance (I've tested the site by progressively adding more and more of the plugins back after having disabled all of them based on your recommendation).
With disabled plugins, I get about the same scores as you did.
HOWEVER - and this is what I don't understand:
I just did a few A/B tests with and without the clients slider (as the only variable), clearing and preloading the cache each time. The difference between the two is absolutely night and day.
Have a guess which Lighthouse report is which.
I'll have to run tests with other slider plugins and will keep you updated.
This has to be related to the plugins you are using.
As I showed in the results in my previous message, they do not differ no matter if client slider was present or not.
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