As soon as the front end of a web app is completed, the developers, product owners, project managers, etc rush to Google PageSpeed Insights to gauge the site performance. This is obvious: why a customer will use a slowly loading site? Even Google is said to be penalizing slow sites in SEO. The stakes are high.

But, when audit results are unexpectedly low, the plans and strategies are envisioned to fix it. To add insult to injury, mobile mode usually performs half that of desktop ones. But, there is a silver lining: it’s not your fault predominantly. Let’s dig into how is this mobile ranking system broken.