PageSpeed Plus Blog

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  • How to Avoid Enormous Network Payloads

    Dec 05, 2024

    Understanding how to avoid enormous network payloads on your website is essential for fast loading times and good page speed scores. Pages need to be under 1,600 KiB to render in a reasonable time.

  • Pagespeed Insights vs WebPageTest

    Oct 16, 2024

    PageSpeed Insights provides quick insights, while WebPageTest offers detailed performance metrics for in-depth analysis.

  • How to Improve First Byte Time

    Sep 21, 2024

    Struggling with slow site speed? Improve your Time to First Byte (TTFB) to enhance performance and user experience. Learn the causes of slow TTFB and discover tips for speeding it up, including using fast hosting, optimizing images, and leveraging caching.

  • What is ImageDelivery.net

    Sep 19, 2024

    ImageDelivery.net is a service from CloudFlare that optimises and delivers images.

  • Easily Screenshot an Entire Webpage: Step-by-Step Guide

    Sep 06, 2024

    Learn how to screenshot an entire webpage effectively. Follow our comprehensive guide to capture full page screenshots effortlessly. Click to read more!

  • New Features August 2024 - Teams and Test History

    Aug 29, 2024

    New Features August 2024 - Teams and Test History

  • Optimize Website Speed With Cache Warming

    Aug 26, 2024

    Optimize your site's loading time with cache warming. Learn practical tips and start improving your website's speed today.

  • How To Take A Scrolling Screenshot In Chrome

    Aug 11, 2024

    A scrolling screenshot captures an entire webpage and offers several advantages over fixed-size screenshots. This guide discusses how to take a scrolling screenshot in Chrome using Page Speed Plus and its benefits.

  • Free Tools to Enhance Website Performance Monitoring

    Jun 09, 2024

    PageSpeedPlus has launched a series of free tools aimed at improving user experience and providing comprehensive insights into website performance.

  • New Features February 2024

    Feb 05, 2024

    Here is a roundup of the features added over the last 8 weeks.

  • How to Properly size images

    Jan 04, 2024

    There are five main ways to properly size images on a website - reduce their width and height, compress them, implement srcset attributes, use SVGs and use an image management service.

  • New Features November 2023

    Nov 20, 2023

    Here’s a snapshot of some of the new features we’ve added to PageSpeedPlus lately.

  • How To Use PageSpeed Insights On Localhost

    Jul 20, 2023

    Running PageSpeed Insights on a localhost page is extremely simple using DevTools or Ngrok. This short posts explains how you can do this with a few clicks.

  • How To Serve images in next-gen formats

    Jan 14, 2023

    Learn bow to Serve images in next-gen formats with a few simple steps and solve this common issue flagged by PageSpeed Insights.

  • How To Monitor Lighthouse Scores

    Dec 26, 2022

    PageSpeedPlus allows you to Monitor Lighthouse Scores for any website. Setup involves a few clicks and afterwards, your website URLs will be scanned on a schedule to keep track of scores over time.

  • New Features - Lighthouse Data, 2FA, API endpoints

    Dec 04, 2022

    Here are some of the features added to PageSpeedPlus over the last two months.

  • How To Export PageSpeed Insights Data To Google Sheets

    Nov 19, 2022

    Getting PageSpeed Insights data into a Google Sheet or other products for analysis is often required for bespoke reports and monitoring. This guide explains how to do it.

  • New Features - Multiple Users, Fresh UI, Extra Metrics

    Oct 31, 2022

    Lots of new features have been added to PageSpeedPlus in recent months and here are some of the highlights.

  • How To Track PageSpeed Insights History

    Aug 01, 2022

    PageSpeed Insights history for a URL can be tracked by using PageSpeedPlus.com

  • What is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) & How To Improve Scores

    Jul 13, 2022

    Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative sets common standards for user experience with defined metrics to measure performance. One of these is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and it became a vital ranking factor in 2021

  • New Features - Opportunities, Diagnostics & More

    Dec 11, 2021

    We’ve added plenty of new features recently to ensure PageSpeedPlus continue to evolve with the ever-changing Pagespeed landscape.

  • Core Web Vitals Monitoring

    Nov 01, 2021

    Monitoring your web vitals scores is essential for all website owners. By using the right tools, you can get all the information you need, helping you understand your site a lot better. 

  • How To Ensure Text Remains Visible During Webfont Load

    Mar 09, 2021

    Loading custom fonts is very common but if done incorrectly can cause a bad user experience and low PageSpeed scores. Understand how to do it without impacting PageSpeed Insights scores

  • How To Reduce the impact of third-party code

    Jan 09, 2021

    The most difficult PageSpeed warning developers will spend time on is Reduce the impact of third-party code. As always, some techniques can minimize the impact and find a middle ground that satisfies business and user experience goals

  • Ultimate Web Vitals Guide: Understand, Improve and Monitor

    Dec 13, 2020

    Core Web Vitals quantify user experience with easy to understand data that aligns developers, SEOs and marketers with one set of metrics to optimize a website around. This guide explains everything you need to know.

  • New Features June 2020

    Jun 07, 2020

    We’ve been quiet on the blogging front recently because we’ve been busy planning, developing and iterating on new features to improve the best PageSpeed Insights monitoring tool on the market.

  • PageSpeed Insights vs Lighthouse

    Dec 23, 2019

    PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse are two similar tools from Google that are used to measure the performance of web pages. Trying to decide which one you should audit your site with can be confusing. This guide explains the background to both tools, the differences between them and when you should use each one.

  • How To Score 90+ On PageSpeed Insights

    Oct 02, 2019

    Trying to Score 90+ on PageSpeed Insights is a process that consumes a lot of developer patience and energy. This guide shortcuts those problems and shows you exactly what steps you need to take.

  • Why Google PageSpeed Matters

    Jul 23, 2019

    PageSpeed is the score Google awards a site after assessing it through its own PageSpeed Insights service. The metric is based on their view of how a web page should be constructed to load fast, offer a pleasant user experience with good code quality underneath.

  • Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy on Laravel Forge

    Jul 15, 2019

    If you're managing a VPS with Laravel Forge and trying to optimize the PageSpeed Insights score, you’ve probably received the ‘Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy’ warning from Google. Fortunately, there is a quick and easy fix that only takes a five minutes to complete.

  • Automate PageSpeed Insights Tests

    Jun 22, 2019

    PagespeedPlus.com automatically scans your URLs daily or weekly and notifies you with the results.

  • How To Eliminate render-blocking resources

    Aug 10, 2018

    This quick guide will show you how to Eliminate render blocking resources, improving your PageSpeed grade by a significant margin as a result.

  • How To Enable GZIP Compression on Laravel Forge

    May 01, 2018

    If you are using Laravel Forge and trying to optimize your website performance, you’ve probably received the Enable Compression warning from Google Pagespeed. This guide gives you precise instructions on how you can solve this with a simple change to your NGINX configuration.

  • PageSpeed Insights vs. GTmetrix: A Detailed Comparison

    Dec 06, 2024

    Website speed is critical, and tools like PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix help optimize performance by providing insights for improving speed and SEO.