A Simple Guide To Use Google Speed Index For WordPress Users

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A Simple Guide To Use Google Speed Index For
WordPress Users
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A Simple Guide To Use Google Speed Index For
WordPress Users
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 interfaces 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.
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What Is Speed Index?
Google provides webmasters with a few tools
which they can use to assess their interfaces
performance. One such solution is Lighthouse
which can be used to evaluate a pages
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.
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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.
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How To Generate Your Websites Speed Index Score?
It will now be clear to you that Google Speed
Index for WordPress users can be an effective
tool. Lets 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
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Through Chrome DevTools
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