Caching the homepage of a Laravel site

anjanesh

I've decided to shift to using Laravel even for marketing websites instead of WordPress just for performance.

I have a Laravel 10 site which I just started and the homepage is 100% static in a marketing.blade.php file as the home route. I offloaded images to bunny.net and set Cache TTL etc.

But pagespeed.web.dev is still returning a score of 69 with just one suggestion.

I don't get how the homepage loading at 1.27s warrants a score of 67 ?

digivrat

sean

anjanesh You can cache the site by setting the cache expiry interval on the app. You can set that by editing the app at https://my.opalstack.com/apps/.

anjanesh

When updating the laravel app how do I purge the cache ?

sean

anjanesh The cache options available on our end are for browser-side caching. You can't purge a browser cache from the server.

If you're looking for a server-side cache then you'll need to configure that within Laravel: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/cache

vince

I've not used pagespeed.web.dev but I know if you run lighthouse via chrome you can find your way to the score calculator via a "see calculator" link which shows what is tanking the score, in cases like this where there is no real suggestion on how to improve it can help =] I'd assume you can do the same thing with pagespeed.web.dev. I think you can share links to calculator results too: https://googlechrome.github.io/lighthouse/scorecalc/#FCP=1122&LCP=3095&TBT=0&CLS=0.01&SI=2336&TTI=1122&FMP=1122&device=mobile&version=10.4.0

I've also had some curious results from Lighthouse, indicating the LCP was around 6 seconds and the whole page was done loading in around 1.5 seconds. So I don't always trust it entirely.

anjanesh

vince I think page load is 1.5 seconds and post that 6 seconds for DOM rendering ?

vince

Sorry I mean the page is done loading, rendering, running js and everything in 1.5 seconds (according to network tab). The lighthouse test itself was finishing in around 4 seconds and the next day LCP was around 3 seconds with no changes. So yeah I don't always trust it =] I wonder if results are more stable when not running from Chrome.