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I used Speed ​​to test the site speed: here's why I like it!

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:59 am
by siyam12
Web Performance

I used Speed ​​to test the site speed: here's why I like it!
Speed ​​is a tool to monitor the speed of the website. Or rather, it checks the loading time of the pages and allows you to identify the problems that prevent you from reducing the waiting times. An objective that, as you well know, today can make the difference for the user and SEO optimization.

People are used to pages that load in senegal phone numbers a flash , they are not willing to wait. And Google rewards fast websites , optimized for mobile and with fast, lean web pages.

This is why it is increasingly important to evaluate and use thbest tools to monitor the loading speed of web pages. The most famous? Obviously Google's Pagespeed Insight .

But it is not the only one. Right after there is Gtmetrix which offers a good amount of data for those who want to improve the performance of their website . Are these elements not enough for you? No problem, I tried Speed ​​( this is the official site ) so you can add a new tool to your list of favorites.

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Table of Contents
Speed: what it is and how it works
Characteristics of the results
Site contents
Improve your performance
Request Details
Monitor and improve multiple domains
Coach's advice for optimizing
Final verdict on the Speed ​​tool
Will you use Speed ​​to improve?
Speed: what it is and how it works
As anticipated, it is a tool to monitor the performance of a web portal with respect to a fundamental theme: loading speed . If you have a slow website , therefore, it can be useful to do an initial analysis. How does it work? The process is very simple, similar to that of other tools.

Enter the URL in the window.
Press enter.
Wait for the results.
In this way you can get the number of requests made, page weight, loading time. That is, the famous load time that influences the behavior of the public and (it is not known to what extent) the positioning on Google. Now you can begin the in-depth work of analyzing the website data and optimizing the various steps. What are the strengths of this tool?

For further information: how to improve site performance starting from measurement

Characteristics of the results
One of the most interesting aspects, at least from my point of view, of Speed ​​is the simplicity of the results. First of all it is a tool for monitoring performances that pays great attention to the clarity of the output, the numbers are presented in an intuitive way (it is completely in Italian).

Screenshot with performance results on Speed
In the first screen you have a summary of the results with some metrics that contain the value of the work done on the web page. Specifically, you can observe loading time, weight of resources , requests for the page. All this is crowned by a final score with evaluation.

Site contents
Right after the introduction, Speed ​​enters into the heart of the analysis and identifies the influence of the various contents on the web page by dividing them into different categories (fonts, images, HTML, CSS, Javascript). In this way you can identify the elements that have the greatest impact on the load time.

Improve your performance
The heart of the data offered by Speed. Here section you can find three areas that help you improve the results of the web page from three points of view, all equally useful to achieve the goal .

Accessibility
That subject that allows you to optimize a website so that it can be consulted by everyone, even by people with different abilities. In this case, for example, images without alt tags are indicated (fundamental for SEO and browsers for the visually impaired) and heading errors are discovered that allow you to give clear information on the structure of the page. These are details that make the difference!