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Why mobile speed is lower on Google Page Speed Insights results than on the actual device

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  • Jul 14, 2022
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As soon as the front end of a web app is completed, the developers, product owners, project managers, etc rush to Google PageSpeed Insights to gauge the site performance. This is ob... Show More

As soon as the front end of a web app is completed, the developers, product owners, project managers, etc rush to Google PageSpeed Insights to gauge the site performance. This is obvious: why a customer will use a slowly loading site? Even Google is said to be penalizing slow sites in SEO. The stakes are high.

But, when audit results are unexpectedly low, the plans and strategies are envisioned to fix it. To add insult to injury, mobile mode usually performs half that of desktop ones. But, there is a silver lining: it’s not your fault predominantly. Let’s dig into how is this mobile ranking system broken.

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Thomas Frank @TomFrankly · Jan 31, 2023
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Just did some digging on this, and found a great article: Apparently it's because Lighthouse is using a simulated slow 4g/fast 3g connection and emulated Android phone from 2016.
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