How to Check Your Website Speed
In this video, I would like to show you how to check your website speed. It’s something that lots of website owners don’t bother doing, however, it could be costing you traffic. I think we have all been on websites where they are so slow to load, that we just go on to another website. The problem could be just a small glitch in the system at that time or the website may have shared hosting that can lead to slower load times. The can be many reasons for a slow website.
If you carry out a Google search for page speed insights or you can go directly to the page here, this will take you to the correct page. Once you’re on the page, all you need to do is type your website address into the webpage URL and then click on analyse.
It’s important to have the right type of hosting for your website. I personally have a dedicated server, but I also use the Wealthy Affiliate hosting, which you can find here. The Wealthy Affiliate hosting is absolutely fine for people who want to get started online. The only reason that I moved to a dedicated server was that my website receives quite a lot of traffic and I also use a Datafeedr, which is fairly server-heavy. I also have more options for hosting here.
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Hi there, it’s Roy Bretton here. I hope you’re doing well. In this video, I want to show you how to check your website speed. Sometimes, we go onto a website and it seems to load instantly, and other times, it seems like we’re waiting ages. Many people will just go to another website if a website is slow to load, so it’s important that your website loads quickly. Here, I have put in the title “page speed,” and this will bring up a Google Page Speed Insights page. Let’s go to it. This is a fairly newish website, which I haven’t done much work on, so let me just find a post here. Let’s copy that post, go to Page Insight, and then click analyze. It’ll take a few moments to analyze.
Analyse Your Website
I haven’t done anything with this website, and another thing is that it has a YouTube video embedded within the thumbnail. YouTube uses its own server, but it can still slow your website down. Let’s go back to Page Insights. This is for mobile, so performance is 57, accessibility 98, best practices 96, SEO 93, so it looks like there’s some work to do there. It gives us all sorts of figures. Now, this is for mobile. Let’s just scroll down a bit. These are all the diagnostics.
I’m not going to go through what to do on these in this video because it’ll be too long, but this is just to check out your page speed initially. Then we can go to the desktop. The Desktop’s results are a bit better, performance 78, but it’s still not green, so we need to improve that. It’s got the score here, not 49 warning red, orange 50 to 89, so it’s not until you hit the green we have to be 90 plus. Obviously, Google finds it quite important.
Diagnose Performance Issues
Now let’s just, out of interest, try another website. Once again, this is a website with very little content; no real work has been carried out on it. Let’s click on here, paste that in, and see what happens. Okay, let’s try that again, unable to resolve validity. This website here, for some reason, is not going to analyze it. Let’s try another post here, on the homepage. Now that’s loading. I did actually try this website earlier, and it worked fine in testing the page speed in Insight, so I’m not quite sure what’s wrong, but probably if I came back another time, it would probably work as I said it worked earlier.
Here, the performance is 58, accessibility 100, best practices 96, and SEO 100. Now, this is quite a long blog post, so I think it’s got, I can’t remember how many words, I think it’s around 6,000 words plus, so it’s long, plus it’s has a YouTube video. But once again, there are some things to work on there. This gives us some good page speed insights. Desktop it goes up to 74, so there are some things we can do.
Anyway, that gives you an idea of how to find your page insight, I’ll try to make another video later on how to sort these particular issues out and take it from there. So, if you have any questions on this, please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section and like this video. Thank you very much for watching.