You Shouldn’t Care About Google PageSpeed

You Shouldn’t Care About Google PageSpeed

Why you Shouldn’t Care About Google PageSpeed Insights. As a website owner, you know your site needs to be fast. You’ve read all the articles about how to make WordPress faster and which plugins to install to accomplish this. You’ve probably added a caching plugin, and now you want to know how much benefit you’re getting.

So you head over to Google PageSpeed Insights, because that’s what all the articles tell you to do, and enter your URL. You’ll be presented with a grade and a list of recommendations from Google and at that point, you might be dismayed:

“What are all these red and orange warnings??”
“Why isn’t my grade higher??”
“What do all these recommendations mean???”

After adding caching to your site, you might be expecting that your PageSpeed grade will be near-perfect. Or you’ll look at the recommendations and wonder why your caching plugin hasn’t fixed them all, automatically.  A lot of customers ask us why their PageSpeed grade isn’t higher, or they assume that because it didn’t increase a lot, it must mean WP Rocket isn’t making their site faster.

The simple truth is this:

Your Google PageSpeed score does not matter.

That’s right, I said it doesn’t matter. 

Here’s why.