# Stacks making Google pagespeed insights worse?

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-making-google-pagespeed-insights-worse/44462 "2024-08-29T21:32:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-making-google-pagespeed-insights-worse/44462/1 "2024-08-29T21:32:11Z")

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Used vanilla RW for years with just some Nick Cates themes. No problems but recently went to use the Aspen theme and then looking into Stacks for SEO helper and a threw in an image cycler (Cycler3) since I was using stacks already.

My home page reports worse built with stack vs vanilla RW.

After looking at how to make images in the cycler small file I noticed that when I downloaded an image from the live site the PNG was considerably larger. (Was 47 KB but 200 KB on site) Is this normal or a RW or specific Stack issue?

For the speed test I ran both over sever days back to back to make sure it wasn’t just a one time thing.

Vanilla  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/oiRShb4.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/oiRShb4.png)  
With Stacks  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/zEEkgd0.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/zEEkgd0.png)