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  The blog that you are currently reading has a perfect
  PageSpeed score 100 / 100.

Unfortunately, no it doesn't. The page that has this blog post scored 95 in performance for mobile in one run and 86 in the next. It scored 91 for desktop.

They'd get a higher score by adding text compression and by serving static assets (all of them?) with an efficient cache policy.

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I see 95 mobile, 100 desktop. It's on the front page of HN, so presumably the server is taking a bit longer to respond to all the traffic.

You were there looking over their shoulder when they wrote "At least at the moment of writing it", and are asserting they are lying?

Weird, shows up as 100 for me... I'll look into that though! Thanks for heads up!

You're welcome! I dislike the tool for this reason - it changes too much. Though I've found that the guidelines are very good for my sites.

PS I get 100 consistently for your home page, so maybe you have an optimization there that can be replicated?

Wait how do you add text compression?

Generally, you add mod_deflate, or a similar package, to .htaccess and add the mimetypes on a new AddOutputFilterByType line along with the algorithm. This is one page [1] that describes the process for apache or nginx, though there are millions of webpages that give various methods.

[1] https://blog.hubspot.com/website/gzip-compression

Thank you. I thought somehow it was supposed to be done client side. Although tbh I hadn't heard of mod_deflate either.

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