Goal setting for new website - pagespeed insights

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Hi,

We are just starting work with a new agency to redevelop our website entirely. I’ve been asked to provide some goals/standards that the new website should reach.

I use pagespeed insights a lot so figure this is a reasonable tool to be able to provide goals and check they have been reached.

What I’m not too sure about though is what would be considered reasonable numbers to achieve.

For example my wordpress test site, which is on a very cheap shared server, has ~11 plugins and has 2x 3rd party applications being called, scores:

Performance | Accessibility | Best practice | SEO

Mobile 88 | 100 | 100 | 100
Desktop 96 | 100 | 100 | 100

My feeling is that if I can do that, then a web agency should be able to do the same. Is it unreasonable to expect 100 for everything but performance (which I would think does relate in many ways to the hosting it’s on)?

thanks

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It is reasonable to expect 100, but there are many moving parts that can affect the score. Not only the hosting.

But to be honest, I have not yet seen a WordPress, Drupal or similar CMS with score 100. My WordPress is only 88 as well, but some of my other sites built in other ways is score 100 or just below.

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Might want to check out sites like https://speedable.net/ with all 100’s. :grinning: