Poor PageSpeed Insights Score - Help

[VR6Pete]

Hi Everyone, I've been away for a few years and have taken the plunge updating one of my forums.

After spending a couple of days going through errors, updating applications / plugins / optimizing etc…. I have turned my attention to the PageSpeed insights as this used to score highly once upon a time ! 

My website is www.vr6oc.com if anyone can give me any pointers to help improve scores. 

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vr6oc.com%2F 

Many Thanks. 

Pete

[VR6Pete]

I have managed to improve the score with desktop, but still quite low on mobile if anyone can offer any assistance? 🙂 

[Adlago]

Add preload fonts in your global template, after closing tag footer (</footer>), or this code

<link rel="preload" href="/applications/core/interface/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous">

 

[VR6Pete]

10 minutes ago, Adlago said:

Add preload fonts in your global template, after closing tag footer (</footer>), or this code

<link rel="preload" href="/applications/core/interface/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous">

 

Thanks. I have added this, but still flagging as that resource is not preloaded.

[Adlago]

5 minutes ago, VR6Pete said:

Thanks. I have added this, but still flagging as that resource is not preloaded.

Try to find the best place for this code. For me, it works well after a mobileNavigation template, before a java script template.
You can also try to put it in your head before loading the css code

[Adlago]

Now I saw that you are using a forum directory for your site. Use this code

<link rel="preload" href="/forum/applications/core/interface/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous">

 

[VR6Pete]

ahha. yes good spot - I should have spotted that myself !!! 

Looks like we have improved the score to 18 ! so still some work to go