This worries me alot, since I belive site perfomance may be taken into consideration for google caffine. Okay, when I looked at my Google site performance (in the webmasters tool) I was shocked to find that I had page load times of over 5.4 seconds : However, this makes no sense. I have recently gone thought my entire site, every page has a Google page speed score of over 95 In fact, the landing pages have a page speed score of 99 (the articles, but the first page is only 98 and I'm still working on it) I can't see what is wrong with my site, I need an expert opinion. I think it might have something to do with the shoutout box on the left hand side (which keeps re-loading). But I don't call this until the very last thing... and it should not slow my site to a "5.4 second to load" score, if anything.. it should take infinity to load, or make no difference at all. Has anyone else seen silly values for there site performance, but yet still have really quick loads and really good Google Page Speeds? WHAT SHOULD I DO? (the site is qualityposts.com, and as far as I can see it's speedy, but google disagees with reality )
Just looking at your situation the first thing you have to do is fire up firebug and look at what it is telling you. See my attachment - the purple lines are for "waiting" and I reckon they're a bit of an issue. Next I'd check out the site with "yslow" and have a look there. If Google is having delays connecting, there's a chance your users are too. I wouldn't be too quick to say they're "liars".
I've done my research to as much as an extent that I know how at this point. I've used YSlow (grade A for everything... bar using a CDN) and Google page speed tools (99% for landing pages and 98% for first page, the rest of the site is all over 95%). I've timed the "page loads" manually at various times of the day after clearing the cache (never more than 1 second for any pages of my site) The page's load fast, there is no denying it. However, Googles performance (webmasters page) tells me that it takes more than 5 seconds to load pages. This could be because I have a script that waits for updates so people can talk to each other 'live' - The shoutout box (with an added bit of AI). The pages still load fast, so if it isn't true... I would say it was a lie, even if it's an unintentional lie. What tool are you using to get the thumbnail. I'm using FireBug with additional plug-ins (YSlow and Speed Tool) but I haven't seen the plug-in that displays that.