PageSpeed Insights: Page speed and content analysing tool | Blogs

PageSpeed Insights is one of the best free tool available to measures the performance of a page for mobile devices and desktop. This could be a great tool which provide expert suggestions after analyzing your page to improve its performance and speed.

After analyzing through the tool, score is generated ranging from 0 to 100 points. A score of 85 and above is considered as a good score which means page loading speed is good and performing well.

PageSpeed Insights measures how the page can improve its performance on:

time to above-the-fold load: Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page and to the moment the above-the-fold content is rendered by the browser.

time to full page load: Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page to the moment the page is fully rendered by the browser.

This tool only considers the network-independent aspects of page performance:

server configuration,
HTML
structure of a page
page components such as images, JavaScript, and CSS.

After analyzing through this tool, a set of suggestions will appear. By following those suggestions, A better page speed and performance can be achieved.

To use this tool, we have two methods available. Either use it directly on web or use it via browser plugin.

Direct test on web using page url: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Get browser plugin here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights_extensions