I have been using bubble for a year and a half. Speed was always an issue. I came back after a couple of months and the situation seems worst. I tried an experiment to see if it was only an impression. I made a new that it is a blank page with a text. No plugins installed. Nothing but a text. These are the results from PageSpeed Insights: [speed1] [speed2] These results are pretty bad for a fully functioning website, but for a blank page, they are a disaster. How can bubble be so slow?

I’m surprised at the speed of my site. I’ll do another test tomorrow. @bubble? With 3 units more: 9. From a virtual amazon s3 windows server: 26. [58%20PM] update: You’re right @neerja, in Dec2018 it was at 10.

@JohnMark post updated for more recent stats: Airbnb shows score of 35 and Uber shows 5. PageSpeed Insights / Lighthouse metrics are not a good reference point as you can see major tech companies scored low which is inaccurate for page load times experienced by users. That said, we are working on optimizing for this score.

After 8 months, you made no progress. With these performances, bubble’s users can forget about ranking in google. I supposed it was a momentary problem, not a “built-in feature”. Then I will look elsewhere, thanks for your time :D.

@lucarenga1 We are making as much progress as large tech companies :slight_smile: See post above. In our experience, this score is not strongly correlated to ranking as most apps are able to rank high with the built-in SEO settings. Email our team if you have further questions about optimizing for your app.

In my experience, speed is an important factor when it comes to seo, but I have no problem changing my mind. Can you share some of those bubble-app that rank high? :slight_smile:

I think for what’s offered, bubble isn’t that bad… name other sites that you can do just as much or more (while retaining no-code friendly UI/UX) that out perform bubble. If you can name a few then maybe I’m on the wrong platform. :+1:t2:

Sorry, but I don’t get your comment. Right now, I am considering performance (speed) as the only variable. And when it comes to speed, bubble is probably the slowest no-code builder I ever tried, by far. Like it or not, speed is something you can’t ignore in 2020. I have no doubt that it is one of the most powerful, but that’s not the point here.

I agree that Bubble should be faster. I dont agree that you said Bubble is not making progress. Bubble apps are much faster now since the last update. They are making progress everyday. You shouldn’t place your mouth where your eyes haven’t been. That said, which plan are you on? Can we see your database setup and privacy rules? I bet you haven’t even created anything useful with Bubble yet. You can prove me wrong. Looking forward to your answer.

I agree with your argument regarding performance. However, like @neerja stated, metrics by PageSpeed Insights are usually misleading and inaccurate - so if you’re basing your app’s performance issues on that premise, you may want to reconsider. I have Webflow apps that score much lower than your score. Below are PageSpeed Insight’s scores for Uber and Airbnb respectively. Uber: [image] Airbnb: [image]

My compliments for the rudeness my friend. I have built and sold two Saas on bubble. In addition, I built a marketplace that was pretty complex. I said that this was a blank page, just to test if the performance issue where on my side. If a blank page performs so bad, that I can easily think that the problem is on bubble’s side. Again nice to meet you.

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Here are the findings over some quick tests in relation to the above post:

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Performance – basic page with poor pagespeed insights score Need help	9	4055	December 22, 2021
Bubble not as slow as we think Idea	20	6141	September 14, 2022
PageSpeed is very slow Need help	2	376	January 7, 2021
Bubble means speed and Bubble is furiously fast // Google´s Light House Speedtest with Bubble.io Apps - How to master it Tips	16	3603	October 19, 2019
Google Pagespeed insights very low Mobile	5	4635	November 23, 2018

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