Eliminate render-blocking resource

[slimmt]

Hi,

How do I eliminate render-blocking resources to improve on my pagespeed for mobile? I read its not possible but if there are any suggestions to help improve the page speed in mobile that would be great. The ranking of our website has decreased and I'm suspecting the page speed for mobile has a lot to do with it. Please help. Thanks!

[Bernadette3]

Hi @slimmt Unfortunately, there is not a way to edit that information. I think there's a couple posts on here that explain the reason why, but really the only option you would have at this time is to submit a feature request. 

Is there a lot of content on the pages or are you using any third party apps? Perhaps there's other ways to edit the site to help with the loading time. 

[slimmt]

Thanks @Bernadette . Seems like a dead end

We are not using third-party apps, just plugins and there's not a lot of content and just one picture with small file size.

[Bernadette3]

I'm sorry. When did you notice the speed decreased? 

[MikeS2]

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Chrome-to-warn-users-about-slow-loading-sites_id120341

Google Chrome might "speed-shame" slow loading websites by posting a warning

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swedenberg.com%2F

This report shows I need to eliminate render-blocking resources. aAre you saying I can't do this to speed up my website using Weebly?

Tthanks,

Mike 

[Adam7]

You won't be able to do that right now with a site built with us, although I don't think that alone is going to make enough of a difference for Google to show a warning to someone. I'm fairly sure the only sites that will give that are those with a ton of content or a lot of third party resources that are linked, e.g. a bunch of widgets which all link to different servers for different script files, etc.

[SteveJoh]

Any fix for this? Seems like Weebly employees are just complacent with a blatant and obvious issue with regards to load speeds. You have been made aware from numerous paying CUSTOMERS and continue to ignore the problem. Google is THE powerhouse for people searching and it needs to be fixed. I use 3 other hosting/website builders and they fix issues immediately when they come to light. 

[chemistnate]

I increased my Google Lighthouse "Performance" from 23 to 42, by doing the following:

1. Went through main.css and eliminated references to custom fonts. Lighthouse said this took a while to load:

/css?family=Montserrat:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext

so I changed all of the

font-family: 'Monserrat', Arial, sans-serif

entries to simply

font-family: Arial, sans-serif

This prevented it from loading that font. I'll work on eliminating other extra fonts.

2. In header.html, no-header.html and splash.html, I commented out two lines of Javascript, each of which was going to load a script that I don't think affected how my site looked:

Before:

<!-- JavaScript -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/plugins.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/custom.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/mobile.js"></script>

After:

<!-- JavaScript -->
<!--<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/plugins.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/custom.js"></script>-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/files/theme/mobile.js"></script>

[chemistnate]

After kvetching about this for 2 weeks, I have decided that:

* code relating to the most serious "render-blocking resources" are added by Weebly during publishing and are not available to be customized via templates.

* there is nothing to be done by us.

* if you believe your website is not ranking as high as it could because of this performance metric, you need to move your site away from Weebly.

[vpi123]

Hello!

Is there any update on this or time frame on when page speed issues will be fixed on Weebly?

I would like to advise a client on whether it is worth staying with Weebly. If there are plans to get everything fixed up for the Google update and Core Web Vitals it would be great to know

Thanks for your help