# Website Grader score decrease dramaticly

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Tags:** local-development, forms\
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871 "2020-04-06T11:17:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Samantha1](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/samantha1/32/102498_2.png) [@Samantha1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Samantha1)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871/1 "2020-04-06T11:17:34Z")

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Hi all,

Ever since the new Website Grader has been updated my website scores just get worse and worse, I have been reading the suggestion tags and implementing them but the score keeps getting worse, Here is an example, the site score was averaging 84 and now (in 1 day without changes) dropped to 67.  
I have been doing website and SEO for over 5 years, so I get the just of everything. But the grader keeps scoring the site poorer each time I test it.  
Ex, my website is fully optimized for images, metadata, SCC and JavaScript compression all to make it lighter, but the Page Size on the grader keeps increasing and went from 2.7MB to 5.7MB overnight.  
Please assist and advise if there any issue with the grader as NONE of the changes I implement betters the scores, it just gets worse.

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**Author:** ![JanetArmstrong](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/janetarmstrong/32/99730_2.png) [@JanetArmstrong](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JanetArmstrong)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871/2 "2020-04-06T13:53:53Z")

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a page size of over 5mb is a problem with images. Do you have a link to your site?

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**Author:** ![Samantha1](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/samantha1/32/102498_2.png) [@Samantha1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Samantha1)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871/3 "2020-04-07T05:44:04Z")

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Good Day Janet

Thank you for your response, here is a link to one of the sites

> **[Overland Liquors gives you massive savings on specials & promotions](https://www.overlandliquors.co.za/)**
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> Overland Liquors offer you a wider range of liquor specials & promotions. Enjoy massive savings on all your favorite drinks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871/4 "2020-04-08T13:43:24Z")

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That looks to be a WordPress website…  
GT Metrix provides a nice breakdown of what can be done to improve your site: [https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.overlandliquors.co.za/ohttKgtw](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.overlandliquors.co.za/ohttKgtw)

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**Author:** ![iEsraalex](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/iesraalex/32/57633_2.png) [@iEsraalex](https://community.hubspot.com/u/iEsraalex)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/website-grader-score-decrease-dramaticly/19871/5 "2021-03-13T00:25:14Z")

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We got 95% on our site. Happy to see that but also ready to [get](https://machinescraft.com/best-espresso-machine-under-500/) that score much higher. Our biggest improvement is page requests and page speed! Going to work on that with our dev team. Thanks