And this is already after I have optimized the page
I havenāt found anything in the network tab, Iām not even doing a āDo a searchā on that page!
Improving this has been a priority for the Bubble team for a long time. They mentioned improving it in 2024 during BubbleCon. At the moment and from my experience, thereās not much you can do to get scores above 50 even with a bunch of optimization.
Unpopular opinionā¦ I donāt care much about Google Pagespeed anymore. Years ago, yeahā¦ it seemed to have an effect on SEO (and Iām sure it still does play a partā¦ but who knowsā¦āEverythingā is important for SEOā¦ But no one can tell you exactly how much you should invest in it vs. the returns youāll make).
Now-a-days, I care more about having great high quality content than spending hours optimizing for things like Google Pagespeed - Which does seem to change itās criteria frequently. You may get a 70 one dayā¦ and a 40 the next if they change some things up. Moving targetā¦ for questionable returns. (Now if they said āyou get a 100, youāre gonna get 500 more people on your app!!ā, that would be something!! But alas, itās all ambiguous)
Not to discredit your concern or derail this convo - I do see some value in Google Pagespeedā¦ Just would hope this doesnāt slow down progress on getting your app launched and people using it and making some money!
As someone who spent time learning Qwik (gets 100% in all categories in mobile and desktop)
Iād say core web vital scores are 10% or less of importance.
Moving forward google is trying to capture real intent and real answers. So providing high quality content users interact with will lead you to āorganic SEO growthā.
I have become the same way. I used to spend hours trying everything I could to optimize apps, even gutting features for less data load for slightly faster (fractions of a second page load) to get a better score, but when I would have meetings with clients and I would always ask how they thought the speed of things were and rarely did I ever get anything other than āit seems to be pretty fastā.
Not saying there canāt be improvements, but I realized I was focusing to much time and effort on things my clients werenāt concerned with.
Itās not near as important to SEO as it is user interaction. After 2-3 seconds bounce rates increase dramatically. We had a client site that was loading so much data on page and popups āpreloading dataā that load times were 20+ seconds and had an 83% bounce rate according to google analytics. Once we removed data preloading popups & corrected some of their structure bounce rates MTD are 41%.
They drove 699k users at an 83% bounce rate. That means 580k left within moments of the page load starting and never actually interacting. 119k/699k users actually not bouncing is atrocious. Bear in mind this app was heavily reliant on paid ads meaning in theory 83% of their marketing dollars were going to waste due to bad site optimization.
Google also doesnāt rank as heavy for load speeds as they used to, itās still a direct factor but 5 yrs ago it was far more important for direct ranking in SEO. However your bounce rate, pages viewed per session, avg user time, etc do heavily impact SEO and are a direct result of page load speeds (which is why google reweighted load speeds as a main SEO factor and started using user interaction results instead).
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