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A Simple Guide To Use Google Speed Index For
WordPress Users
slide 2: Do you know that 40 of internet users abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load Google uses
the page loading speed as a ranking signal for finalizing its search results positions. Website speed has become
an important user experience metric which affects the overall performance of an interface. Google provides some
handy tools to webmasters which they can use to assess their interface’s performance. Here we are discussing
how Google Speed Index for WordPress users can prove to be a valuable asset. As a WordPress website owner
you get access to a platform with lightweight code and in-built speed optimization capabilities. However with the
addition of new elements like images and videos your website can become slow.
A Simple Guide To Use Google Speed Index For
WordPress Users
slide 3: Google provides webmasters with a few tools which they can use to assess their interface’s performance. One
such solution is Lighthouse which can be used to evaluate a page’s performance. The Speed Index is a metric
which can be analyzed with the Lighthouse tool to learn how quickly all the elements of a page are visibly
loaded in a browser. Lighthouse finds out whether a page is accessible to all visitors even those who are using
unreliable network connections. It also checks whether a page is being served from a secure location or not. It is
an open-source solution which can be accessed in various ways.
What Is Speed Index
slide 4: How Speed Index Is Calculated
In order to measure the Speed Index the Lighthouse tool records a video of a page loading in a browser. It
captures 10 frames per second and includes only above the fold content of the page. In case a page takes 4
seconds to render completely then there will be 40 frames in total. The first frame will have nothing to show while
the last will be displaying the fully-loaded page. Each frame is compared with the final one to ascertain its
completeness. Then a graph is plotted with visibility completeness and elapsed time to find the average score.
slide 5: It will now be clear to you that Google Speed Index for WordPress users can be an effective tool. Let’s see how
you can generate the score for your web pages. There are two main ways in which you can access Lighthouse.
We will discuss each one of them here.
1. The Command Line Method
You will have to install the Node command line tool. First you will have to get the Google Chrome browser
installed on your system. Then you will need to install the long-term support version of Node. Then install
Lighthouse through:
npm install -g lighthouse
Here “-g” flag will make sure that the tool is installed as a global module. When you need to run an audit you can
use:
lighthouse
In case you want to view the audit options you can use:
lighthouse –help
How To Generate Your Website’s Speed Index Score
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