Bulk Page Speed Insights Test

Run Page Speed Insights on multiple URLs at once.

URL List
Sitemap.xml

Mobile & Desktop

Web Vitals

Sitemap or List

Shareable URL

Quick Summary

PageSpeedPlus scans multiple pages in bulk
Enter a list of URLs or a sitemap.xml to scan your whole site
Mobile and Desktop are tested

How to run a Bulk PageSpeed Insights Test
About PageSpeed Plus
How it works
Benefits of Bulk Google Pagespeed Scans
Comparison
Why we built it
Conclusion

How to run a Bulk PageSpeed Insights Test

The tool on this page tests up to 10 URLs. To check more pages, sign up for a trial and then you have even more options:

List of URLs

Click Testing Tools in the top navigation
Select Bulk PageSpeed Test
Enter a list of URLs

Full Site Scan

Click Testing Tools in the top navigation
Select Bulk PageSpeed Test
Click sitemap.xml
Enter the URL of your sitemap.xml

Every page listed in your sitemap.xml file will now be measured with the PageSpeed Insights API. Obviously, the more pages your site has the longer it lasts but we can do multiple URLs in parallel to accelerate the process. You can see the progress and view pages as they complete.

Scheduled Sitemap Scans

Click into any site in your account
Click the Manage button in the top right
Scroll to the bottom and enter the URL of your sitemap.xml
Click Save
Your site will be scanned for the first time and then every week thereafter

Once a scan finishes you will receive an email and can view the full contents of the report from your dashboard.

After the initial setup scan, we will automatically scan your site daily or weekly from then on, depending on the settings you choose. If you are on the Pro plan, you'll have access to the on demand button. Just click that and your scan will start.

Once a few scans have completed, your analytics will begin to take shape so you can see the history how the average score changes between scans.

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Results of a full site scan

PageSpeed Plus is powered by the latest version of the PageSpeed Insights API which uses Lighthouse data.

It allows you to scan your entire website daily, weekly and on demand. These scans can be set to run on a schedule or triggered manually when you decide. When a scan starts, we grab every URL in the sitemap.xml and pass each one through the PageSpeed API for mobile and desktop. If you wish to enter a manual list of URLs, that is possible also.

After all URLs have been processed, the in depth results page is be shown and users receive an email with the average score.

This allows you to inspect your site on a page by page basis, sort by score or URL and gradually build a picture of which pages on your site are slow. Each site also has an overview section so you can quickly see your average score and whether any monitored URLs are slow.

How it works

PageSpeed Plus integrates with the latest of the PageSpeed Insights API. We scan every URL to get its desktop score and then a second time to get the mobile score. These requests are done using a Google API Key.

Benefits of Bulk Google Pagespeed Scans

The obvious benefit of full site scans is that you can see the score of every page on your site instead of one. This allows you to identify pages that are ripe for optimization which could return quick wins in SERP rankings if a little performance work was carried out.

Future scans are then automated so you don’t have to log in every time you want to run a scan. Just decide whether you want daily or weekly test and we will take it from there.

Email alerts notify you when a scan is complete and tell you the average score. If the result is good, you may not even need to login to PageSpeed Plus and analyze the results but of course, if you want, just tap the link in the email to go directly there.

A key offering of PageSpeed Plus full site scans is that you can specify a URL parameter to be appended to every request. This allows you to filter these requests out of your analytics and any other tracking to avoid your data being distorted or usage limits being exceeded. We recommend ?referrer=pagespeedplus.

Comparison

We’ve sung the praises of PageSpeed Plus but let’s not forget that PageSpeed Insights from Google is where it all started so it’s only fair to compare both tools so you can see which one suits your use case better:

Google PageSpeed Insights

Test single URLs only
Test One URL at a time
Manual
No alerts
Free

PageSpeed Plus

Test every URL in sitemap.xml
Test multiple URLs in parallel
Automated
Email alerts
Paid

Why we built it

We started our PageSpeed journey by pasting URLs into the PageSpeed Insights UI but only ever tested the homepage and a few other random URLs on our site. We would optimize them and fix the issues only to come back a few weeks later to find that the score had changed again.

Our testing was only ever reactive and we only covered a small percentage of the pages on our sites.

The next step was to try and automate things so we found a few tutorials that stitched together a google sheet and some functions but it was to difficult to scale and hard for non-technical people to use.

We then tried a number of free and commercial tools but none of them were able to scan our entire site reliably at the required intervals to give us the data we need. Worst of all, they destroyed our analytics and usage limits on tags because the PageSpeed Insights UI executes JavaScript.

We wanted to put PageSpeed at the heart of all decisions made by our team but to do that requires a reliable tool, with a nice UI that can send alerts and integrate with other systems. We realized that the only way we could get there was to build our own tool. After discovering there is a PageSpeed Insights API, we made the decision and started building.

Conclusion

PageSpeed Insights from Google is a fantastic tool for people at the beginning of their web performance and technical SEO journey but anyone who takes these seriously will quickly outgrow the feature set.

Automation is the only way to truly stay on top of PageSpeed for large websites and agencies who want to measure their Google Pagespeed in Bulk across entire sites. You can build your own solution or use an off the shelf tool like PageSpeed Plus. If you choose to do that you won’t be disappointed.

Along with the other features of PageSpeed Plus that we haven’t discussed such as URL Monitoring, URL Analytics and Slack Alerts we can keep track of our PageSpeed and know exactly when we need to take action.