How to Check Website Page Speed

Haven saw why you must care about website speed. Let us see some ways of checking your website speed.

  1. Wealthy Affiliate - Page Speed Insight


There are several tools available to check your website speed. The first I would like to look at is Page Speed Insight on the wealth affiliate portal. If your website is hosted here at a wealthy affiliate, you will have access to checking your website speed via the page speed insight platform. To access this, click on the website on the top navigation and click on-site manager.

Under your desired website, fine details as shown below.


Scroll down; the page has been divided into various units. You should see Admin details, domain details, Site plus, and then page speed Insight. Here you can see how each of your pages is performing, both on mobile and desktop devices.

2. Think with Google

If your website is not hosted here on Wealthy Affiliate, it does not call for panic. There are a lot of other alternatives you can use. One of such is the Testmysite platform on Think with Google.


It is a free tool from Google that will give a good insight into your website speed. All you need do is call the page and enter the URL you desire to analyze. It will respond with the site's speed and let you know if it is poor or good.

Click on the Next button as we begin to see how you can improve your website page speed.



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ThomasTay Premium
I just did the Page Speed Insight for one of my articles. The result for the mobile is no good. It is showing red with a rating of 27.

There are only 2 images I used in this article and both came from the Site Content Image library. All the images in the library should have been optimized by WA.

I also have 2 YouTube Videos embedded inside the article.

Any suggestion I can do to improve my mobile speed for this article?
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TheAbiePPlus Premium Plus
You have Kraken by default, that's an image optimizer, you can also use a3 lazy load plugin.

Below resource may also help
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Parameter Premium
Hi Thomas,

Thank you for sharing your experience. While lazy loading is agood way to improve website speed.
I advice you download the images and work on them.

Its simple.

Use the websites i pointed out in page 3 of this tutorial. They will help you reduce image size and also compress it.

That way you will be sure your images are not too bulky. Then you can use the plugins adviced by abieAj to lazylaod.

Another thing i will advice is to do a proper check on your website theme and plugins. Ensure you have only one theme installed. If you have more than one, delete all inactive theme and plugins.

If you do this, your website speed should improve

Ayodeji
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Kyle Premium Plus
For which website are you seeing these speeds? This is likely the result of the images, plugins you may have and embedding Youtube videos is definitely going to slow down your website.

Let me know and I can have a look here.
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ThomasTay Premium
Hi Kyle,

This is the article I am referring to:
https://hotelectronicsproducts.com/what-is-the-lifespan-of-a-sd-card/

Hope you can give me some advice to improve the speed.
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RosanaHart Premium Plus
Good list!
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Parameter Premium
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Thank you Rosana.

I appreciate the time taken to see the training.

Continue to stay safe

Ayodeji
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BrendaMZ Premium Plus
Ayodeji, interesting. Just learned something new about two sites for image resizing and optimization. Thanks for the training about website speed. I agree too many plugins can make load slower.
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Parameter Premium
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That is very good.

All thanks to Jofa (https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/jofa). He mentioned them to me when I was struggling with image resizing and compression. They have been very helpful

Ayodeji
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Vlad_B Premium Plus
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing this information.
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Parameter Premium
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Thank you Vlad,

I am glad you found it resourceful

Ayodeji
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richardgb Premium
Your training always includes something that I've not come across before, Parameter!
I'd not heard of Think With Google... it looks like a very useful site.
Thank you
:-)
Richard
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Parameter Premium
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Thank you Rich,

This is highly encouraging. I also discovered it recently when i had to worry with my website speed.

It is a highly resourceful website

Ayodeji
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