Case study: Lifty Life

Lifty Life: mobile PageSpeed from 9 to 92

In January 2021 the home page scored 9 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 38 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of F (41%) and a fully loaded time of 8.2 s.

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In short

Lifty Life is a vacation rentals business. In January 2021 Codiffy optimized the speed of liftylife.ca: Google PageSpeed went from 9 to 92 on mobile and from 38 to 100 on desktop and GTmetrix from F (41%) to A (99%).

ClientLifty Life
IndustryVacation rentals
PlatformWordPress
Tested withGoogle PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom
ServicesPerformance optimization
WhenJanuary 2021

The short version

Challenge: In January 2021 the home page scored 9 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 38 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of F (41%) and a fully loaded time of 8.2 s.
Approach: We installed and configured NitroPack and switched off the Nginx Helper and Simple SSL plugins.
Result: Afterwards it scored 92 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (99%) and a fully loaded time of 2.0 s.

9 → 92PageSpeed mobile score. Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, home page, before and after the work, January 2021

About Lifty Life

Lifty Life is a vacation rentals business. We optimized the speed of liftylife.ca in January 2021.

The problem

In January 2021 the home page scored 9 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 38 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of F (41%) and a fully loaded time of 8.2 s.

What we did

We installed and configured NitroPack and switched off the Nginx Helper and Simple SSL plugins.

The result

Afterwards it scored 92 on mobile and 100 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (99%) and a fully loaded time of 2.0 s.

Test	Before	After
Google PageSpeed, mobile	9	92
Google PageSpeed, desktop	38	100
GTmetrix grade (performance)	F (41%)	A (99%)
GTmetrix fully loaded time	8.2 s	2.0 s
Pingdom load time	3.06 s	1.03 s
Pingdom page size	5.5 MB	2.0 MB

Before and after

Google PageSpeed Insights results for liftylife.ca from January 2021, before the speed work on the left and after it on the right — Google PageSpeed Insights, before and after.

GTmetrix results for liftylife.ca from January 2021, before the speed work on the left and after it on the right — GTmetrix, before and after.

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Questions about this project.

How much faster did liftylife.ca get?

Google PageSpeed went from 9 to 92 on mobile and from 38 to 100 on desktop, and GTmetrix from F (41%) to A (99%), with the fully loaded time down from 8.2 s to 2.0 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up liftylife.ca?

We installed and configured NitroPack and switched off the Nginx Helper and Simple SSL plugins.

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