Case study: Unionville Optometry

Unionville Optometry: mobile PageSpeed from 50 to 92

In July 2022 the home page scored 50 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 83 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 11.0 s.

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In short

Unionville Optometry is an optometry clinic in Markham, Ontario. In July 2022 Codiffy optimized the speed of unionvilleoptometry.ca: Google PageSpeed went from 50 to 92 on mobile and from 83 to 99 on desktop and GTmetrix from D (57%) to A (100%).

ClientUnionville Optometry
IndustryOptometry
PlatformWordPress
Tested withGoogle PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and Pingdom
ServicesPerformance optimization
WhenJuly 2022

The short version

Challenge: In July 2022 the home page scored 50 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 83 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 11.0 s.
Approach: We installed NitroPack and fixed the fatal error that stopped it from activating at first. No plugins needed to be switched off.
Result: Afterwards it scored 92 on mobile and 99 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (100%) and a fully loaded time of 1.9 s.

50 → 92PageSpeed mobile score. Google PageSpeed Insights, mobile, home page, before and after the work, July 2022

About Unionville Optometry

Unionville Optometry is an optometry clinic in Markham, Ontario. We optimized the speed of unionvilleoptometry.ca in July 2022.

The problem

In July 2022 the home page scored 50 on Google PageSpeed mobile and 83 on desktop, with a GTmetrix grade of D (57%) and a fully loaded time of 11.0 s.

What we did

We installed NitroPack and fixed the fatal error that stopped it from activating at first. No plugins needed to be switched off.

The result

Afterwards it scored 92 on mobile and 99 on desktop, with GTmetrix A (100%) and a fully loaded time of 1.9 s.

Test	Before	After
Google PageSpeed, mobile	50	92
Google PageSpeed, desktop	83	99
GTmetrix grade (performance)	D (57%)	A (100%)
GTmetrix fully loaded time	11.0 s	1.9 s
Server response	3.1 s	0.48 s
Pingdom load time	3.93 s	1.17 s

Before and after

Google PageSpeed Insights mobile test of unionvilleoptometry.ca before the speed work, July 2022 — Google PageSpeed Insights mobile, before and after.

Google PageSpeed Insights mobile test of unionvilleoptometry.ca after the speed work, July 2022 — Google PageSpeed Insights mobile, before and after.

GTmetrix test of unionvilleoptometry.ca before the speed work, July 2022 — GTmetrix, before and after.

GTmetrix test of unionvilleoptometry.ca after the speed work, July 2022 — GTmetrix, before and after.

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Questions about this project.

How much faster did unionvilleoptometry.ca get?

Google PageSpeed went from 50 to 92 on mobile and from 83 to 99 on desktop, and GTmetrix from D (57%) to A (100%), with the fully loaded time down from 11.0 s to 1.9 s.

What did Codiffy do to speed up unionvilleoptometry.ca?

We installed NitroPack and fixed the fatal error that stopped it from activating at first. No plugins needed to be switched off.

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