Page Speed is scored on a 100 point scale. Google says, “To provide a good user experience, sites should strive to have a good score (90-100).”
Unfortunately, how Google places you in that curve isn’t intuitive (unless you are a statistician):
Some university instructors become infamous for “grading on a curve.” No matter how well the class does, only one student gets an A, only a few get a B, most will get Cs, and half the class will get a D or just fail. That’s the scenario we’re dealing with here.
In other words, If your site scored well last year, but hasn’t changed much, it might well score worse this year. Because the rest of the web is improving.
It’s non-intuitive, but PageSpeed score is not what the May Google update is looking for! Google has very specifically stated that you must get a “Good” score (green in PageSpeed) for all three metrics:
These three metrics will be “field data”. Google uses Chrome to measure the speed of sites across the web. That’s the source for the “field data” you see in PageSpeed Insights. Which leads us to…
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