Why is Vimeo slowing down my website speed?

[CykelHouse]

I have a video playing on my home page from Vimeo. But when checking my speed there are 4 things heavily slowing it down. But I’m not sure if these are to do with Vimeo or not. 

I have attached an image of the issues. 

the web site is www.cykelhouse.com

 

[oscprofessional]

@CykelHouse 

Hello,

Your store performance is very low!

you need to reduce unused JS code

3rd Party code.

you need to work on these then you can achieve good score.

[PageFly-Victor]

Hi @CykelHouse ,

This is PageFly - Free Landing Page Builder. I would love to provide my recommendations for your store based on 6 years of providing solutions for about 120.000 active Shopify merchants.

I saw that you got some answers but I want to tell you one more way and tips to test your speed and optimize it. I just tested your website on both my Samsung and iPhone and PageSpeed Insights app. You can see the reason via its’ report here: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcykelhouse.com%2F

Your page works quite well on the desktop but so slow on mobile. You should consider the mobile analytic results:

1. The biggest reason that makes your page run slowly is from JavaScript code. You should consider removing deprecated JavaScript, CSS code to reduce the number of bytes available for network activity. Please check your theme.liquid file and remove unused JavaScript

2. A small comment for optimizing your images and delayed loading of off-screen images: 

Consider partially loading hidden and off-screen images after all your important resources have been loaded to reduce interaction time.

If you want to optimize your images to help your page loading speed faster, you can use some of the image optimization tools like: ImageOptim, Shopify Online Image Resizer, tinypng.com or imagecompressor.com.

And If you have images that go with .PNG file, you can convert them to .JPG or .JPEG files

Besides, you should check both Mobile and Desktop devices in the report to have maximize the effectiveness of speed optimization: 

Finally, you can consider some tips to improve the speed page about How to Speed Up Website and Optimize Page Load Time To Win Sales. 

We are PageFly a Shopify page builder to customize your page, our app provides the Lazyload function and it's easy to use with a drag-and-drop system and less code needed. Here is a reference. 

If you find my comment useful, you can like it. And let me know if you want further assistance.

Have a great day!

[CykelHouse]

Hi, that’s really helpful info thanks. 

but I’m really just trying to figure out what the code is I put up in the picture? There are 4 lots of it and it’s really slowing it down. But I only have 1 video. So not sure why there is so many versions of a similar thing. 

regards

gavin

[Wooderzz]

it does look like it is the Video. I think the video file must be .M4S. 

.m4s files are individual media segments of one complete file. They are in the ISO Base Media File (ISOBMFF) format. The idea is to split one longer file (e.g. think of one movie encoded as an .mp4 file) into individual files that can be downloaded independently via HTTP.

This would explain the multiple links in the speed test. Not sure if this is Vimeo creating the issue or your store theme but I hope this helps! 

p.s I recommend using GT Metrix for your speed scoring

[MS_WEB_DESIGNER]

Hi @CykelHouse 

I am Alex From MS Web Designer (Top Rated Shopify Certified Experts and eCommerce Consultant from Singapore ) I helped 1000+ Shopify Store owners to Optimize their website loading speed for both mobile and desktop and increase their conversion rate.

Here are some proven steps that will improve your website speed dramatically for both mobile and desktop.

• Select a light Weight Shopify Theme ( OS 2.0 Compatible ) 
• Remove all Unwanted Shopify App ( That you have installed, but not using)
• Minify Javascript, CSS 
• Reduce the Large Image Size
• Eliminating the halting problem in Javascript
• Apply Lazy loading per section wherever required
• Replace Gifs with the Static Images
• Resize Products images using Shopify App ( for Bulk )
• Check Page Speed by Google page Insight and GTmetrix.

By fixing these issues, your website speed score can definitely improve
If you want a Free complete Website Optimization Audit Report ( All the Actionable steps for your store ), let me know 

If you have any concerns feel free to ask me!

Good Luck!

Regards,
Alex