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Hi there, Thanks so much for the quick response and clarification. This is very helpful, and I am tracking with you (completely) regarding your suggestions to the original poster. Thanks also for the encouragement. Only twice in my career have I heard someone say anything even remotely negative about my SEO efforts, so paired with your comment and my experience, I'm going to take what this client is saying with a grain of salt. Greatly appreciated, Zack

Thanks.

Google is testing your pages using Lightspeed / Core Web vitals, or simply said https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ The page speed testing done by MOZ is different then Lighthouse, because google actually relies on a real rendering scene rather then passively load everything together. So if you want to get better scores to site speed, optimize using insights as the link above posted. Alot of gains can be made and the Time to first byte and actual rendering time could be improved massively.