- [Instructor] When it comes to SEO,
speed is super important.
And one of the ways you can test the speed
of a website, or your website,
is by utilizing Google's PageSpeed Insights.
So this is a free tool that Google offer
and you can come in here, put your website in,
click Analyze, and it will show you
sort of quickfire results on how quickly
your website is loading.
So you can see how quickly your website loads
on a mobile phone, and also on a desktop device as well.
Obviously, more and more people are starting to
open websites up on mobile phones,
so that is something that you need to keep in mind.
And so, it gives you a rating,
and once it's given you the rating,
it also gives you suggestions
and things that you need to do, to correct,
to make your page load a little bit quicker.
So as you scroll down,
you'll start seeing different opportunities,
different things that are slowing down your website,
and you can speak with your website developer
or your hosting company, or you can Google some of these
and try to fix them yourself, depending on your situation.
You also can click on the other tab,
which is the Desktop tab,
and this will kind of give you different results.
So your pages and your website will likely load quicker
on a desktop device because desktop devices tend
to just load websites a lot quicker.
And again, it will give you a rating
and it will give you suggestions
on what you can do to improve your load speed.
So another website that I like is tools.pingdom.com,
and it's a similar concept, really,
where you plug your website in,
but you can also test from different countries as well.
So you can test your speed from different places,
and you can start your test, and this will actually give you
your performance grade from A to Z,
and it will also give you your page size
and your load time in seconds, and how many requests,
and you can download or share these results as well
with your web developer or whoever it is
that is in charge of your website's performance.
And then it gives you, again,
similar to the PageSpeed Insights,
ideas and suggestions on what you can do personally
to improve your website, and it gives you
kind of a description of what needs to be done.
And also, you can kind of see your content size
by content type, request by content type,
and you can also kind of see
all of the file requests as well.
So it kind of gives you a backend of
your website's current speed performance,
but also what you can do to help to improve that.
So if you are serious about search engine optimization,
you also need to be serious about page speed.
And this is one of the ways you can get insight
into how you can improve your website's load speed.