google’s pagespeed insight – what is it?
If you want to measure the performance of your page on mobile and desktop devices, then Google’s PageSpeed Insight is the perfect tool for you. Designed to fetch the URL twice, PageSpeed insight allows you to evaluate the performance of your webpages and at the same time, make suggestions on how to improve them.
PageSpeed Insight Features
PageSpeed Score
- Scoring ranges from 0 to 100 points, with 0 being the lowest and 100 being the highest score.
- A score of 85 and above means that the webpage is performing well.
PageSpeed Insight Measures Page Performance on:
- time to above-the-fold load- This refers to the elapsed time from the time when a user requests a new page to the time the above-fold-content is delivered by the browser.
- time to full page load:- This refers to the elapsed time from the time when a user requests a new page to the time a page is fully delivered by the browser.
What Google’s PageSpeed Insight Considers?
The tool only considers network-independent aspects of page performance since the performance of a network connection varies significantly. Here are some of the factors it considers:
- server configuration
- HTML structure of a page
- Use of external resources like images, JavaScript, and CSS
Page Speed Suggestions:
- Red exclamation point- It means that fixing this would have a considerable effect on page performance
- Yellow exclamation point- You can consider fixing this if there’s not a lot of work.
- Green check mark- It means the page has no significant issues.