What are some ways to check page load speed?

peter • September 15, 2021

What's your goal for page load speed? Obviously fast is better than slow, but do you have a number?

There's a tool out there called GT Metrics, GTmetrics.com, which is a good tool for measuring that. And what it will do is give the page a score. And usually, it's ABCDF for the page load speed. So you want an A, if you're using that tool. And if there's things that aren't loading quickly, like sometimes your images are optimized and it'll tell you that.

You can also do a search for Google page speed tool, and Google has its own tool that will look at your page speed and give you a score. And obviously, you want to try to score in the green, which it uses a more of a number. So like in the 90% and above, just as a number. Where GT Metrics will give you the score as a grade. But yeah, you want to be in the green on either one of those tools. So you use those tools to check it and see where you're at. And obviously, you want to do what you can do to get into the green. It doesn't have to be 100%, but ideally if you can at least be in the 90s, it's the best. And then, you know it's loading well on all different devices and people are able to interact with it.

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