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Insights from Google PageSpeed

By Matt Keys

Performance & Optimization / Caching Solutions

Insights from Google PageSpeed Review - In-Depth Analysis

Increase your site's performance and search engine ranking with Google PageSpeed Insights. This tool provides detailed reports and recommendations for both desktop and mobile performance.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.8/10

User Rating

4.8/5 (based on 28+ reviews)

Active Installations

20,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Google Pagespeed Insights is a tool that empowers you to make decisions that increase the performance of your website. Recommendations from Google Pagespeed are based upon current industry best practices for desktop and mobile web performance.

Through the addition of advanced data visualization, tagging, filtering, and snapshot technology, Insights from Google PageSpeed provides a comprehensive solution for any webmaster looking to increase their site performance, their search engine ranking, and their visitors browsing experience.

Sort your page reports by their Page Speed Score to prioritize the largest areas of opportunity on your site. Page reports utilize easy to read visualizations that allow you to quickly focus in on the most important data to improve your sites performance.

Report Summaries are a powerful and exclusive feature of Insights from Google PageSpeed. Summaries display your average Page Score, largest areas for improvement across ALL reports, as well as best and lowest performing pages. Report summaries can be filtered to narrow results by: Pages, Posts, Categories, Custom URLs, and Custom Post Types.

Using Report Summaries allows you to ‘zoom out’ from the page-level and better understand the big picture of your sites performance.

Best practices for site performance differ greatly between Desktop and Mobile device usage. Configure Insights from Google PageSpeed to generate Desktop reports, Mobile reports, or both!

Toggle back and forth between report types to see specific suggestions for improving the performance and experience on each platform.

The Report Snapshot tool builds on the power of Report Summaries, to provide historical “Point In Time” data about your website.

Take a snapshot of any Report Summary screen to store that data for future retrieval. Add comments to your snapshots to provide additional meaning, such as “Before Installing W3 Total Cache.” Additionally, filter a Report Summary before taking a Snapshot to save a summary of the filtered data.

The Snapshot Comparison Tool is an amazing utility that lets you visualize side-by-side results from any two similar Report Snapshots.

Take a Report Snapshot before installing new plugins, or before implementing performance recommendations. Take another snapshot when you are finished and compare your results to measure the effect of your changes.

Easily add additional URLs for inclusion in Pagespeed Reports. Even add URLs for non-WordPress sites, even if they are not hosted on your server. URLs can be added manually, or upload a properly formatted XML sitemap to add multiple pages at once.

Configure Insights from Google PageSpeed to automatically recheck your site on a Daily, Weekly, Bi-Monthly, or Monthly basis.

With each scan, any new pages or posts will be discovered, and existing reports will be updated to reflect any changes to your site, as well as any changes in the Pagespeed recommendations.

Comparing to Alternatives

Insights from Google PageSpeed offers a straightforward way to monitor your website's Lighthouse scores, standing out among other speed optimization plugins.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Provides clear Lighthouse score overviews for SEO improvements
Easy to use with actionable recommendations
Responsive support with quick replies and guidance

Weaknesses

Limited to reporting and insights, lacks direct optimization features
No built-in caching or minification tools
No premium version to unlock advanced features

User Sentiment Analysis

User feedback highlights the plugin's usefulness and support, though some find it limited in functionality.

Positive highlights

'Quick replies and pointed hand-holding' - bhagawadkrishna
'Extremely useful and easy to use' - dilusionz
'One of the most useful plugins for SEO EVER' - dirkliesenfeld
'Thanks Matt, your awesome!' - Ben
'Excellent plugin with room for improvements' - Nabil Sikder

Common complaints

Some users find it 'useless' due to limited features
Lacks direct optimization capabilities
No advanced customization options

Weaknesses

No pro version limits feature expansion
Primarily a reporting tool, not an optimizer

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Website owners and SEO professionals seeking a simple, reliable way to track Google Lighthouse scores and receive actionable insights without complex optimization tools.

Not ideal for

Users looking for comprehensive speed optimization plugins with caching, minification, and advanced performance enhancements will find this plugin insufficient.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version provides essential Google PageSpeed Insights scores and actionable recommendations to improve website performance.

Final Verdict

Insights from Google PageSpeed is a valuable tool for those focused on monitoring and improving their site's Lighthouse scores with clear, actionable data.

However, it lacks direct optimization features and advanced options found in other speed plugins, making it best suited as a complementary tool rather than a standalone solution.