# Site Speed - Performances

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/site-speed-performances/6698
**Category:** sage
**Created:** 2016-05-11T10:17:43Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @plarcher — 2016-05-11T10:17:43Z

Hi,

I have tested many websites built with Sage on Google Speed Insight and never seen a really good score.

I wonder what it means, if someone has counterexamples and thought on speed optimization for Sage based websites.

Cheers,

Phil

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## Post 2 by @squaredindex — 2016-05-11T11:44:19Z

I’ve always managed to get pretty good scores with Roots/Sage. Have you tried using [GTMetrix](https://gtmetrix.com/)? that might help you identify some areas you can improve and give a little more insight than Google Page Speed on some fronts.

Personally even on shared hosting I’ve found it’s possible to get under a second load times with fairly decent scores and on a VPS running Trellis you should have no issues.

A few pointers would be:

- Generally a good idea to use Nginx over Apache if your host offers that.

- Remove any Bootstrap components you are not using. [More info on that](https://roots.io/modifying-bootstrap-in-sage/)

- Dequeue Styles and Scripts you can without issue from plugins to decrease the number of requests and block rendering.

- [Use UnCSS to remove unused CSS](https://discourse.roots.io/t/sage-uncss/5015)

- If you’re on shared hosting use a decent caching plugin (my personal favourite right now is [WP Fastest Cache](http://www.wpfastestcache.com/))

- [Someone integrated pagespeed with Trellis](https://discourse.roots.io/t/trellis-build-nginx-from-source-ngx-pagespeed-enjoy/6391) which looks awesome, I haven’t tried it yet but I plan to soon.

That’s about all I can think of right now, I hope that helps :slight_smile:

EDIT: I thought I’d give an example of a site I’ve recently finished for a client in the last few weeks and they are on shared hosting, and even on shared it was possible to get a decent score.

 ![](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c63c01c4ab46c084918682bd6cacce754119cdf5.png)  
 ![](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a4bf811a374fbd9804aecebeb842a7acb8060693.png)

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## Post 3 by @swalkinshaw — 2016-05-11T12:13:46Z

So what scores have you gotten? This isn’t that helpful without showing us the scores or the areas where you got bad grades.

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## Post 4 by @plarcher — 2016-05-14T14:24:39Z

I found this one with a good desktop score (90) in the showcase section :

- [http://www.arkdevelopment.com/](http://www.arkdevelopment.com/)

And this one for desktop and mobile :

- [http://bullmandesign.com/](http://bullmandesign.com/)

Yellow

- [https://pipercollective.com.au](https://pipercollective.com.au)