GTmetrix is an online tool that allows you to measure the performance of websites.
This tool measures the loading speed and optimizes your website's resources to generate a score for each tool and provide an overall grade.
GTmetrix is very simple to use and understandable.
The basic tool is free, if you want more features, there is GTmetrix Pro which starts at $ 14.95 a month.
But how do you improve your site's speed with GTmetrix? We will explain this in this tutorial.
How to improve your site's speed on GTmetrix?
The first thing to do, to have access to additional options, is to create a free account on the site to analyze your website's speed.
Once your account is created, you enter the URL and click on “Analyze”.
How GTMetrix's speed test works
After the software has scanned your webpage's URL, it will provide you with a report in just a few seconds containing the following information:
- The Google speed score;
- The Yahoo speed score;
- The loading time of the page;
- The total weight of the page;
- The total number of requests.
GTmetrix's speed test offers a comprehensive overview of your website's performance, providing effective tests for speed and improving your website's score until it is optimized.
Tabs that help to improve the GTMetrix website grade
In addition to PageSpeed e YSlow, there are several tabs that help improve the performance of your website, among these we recall:
- Waterfall: a tab that indicates the time taken to load each resource, offers insights into which resources should be optimized;
- Timing: shows data related to the loading process;
- Video: a tab that shows a video of the entire loading process to see which elements of the page take longer to load visually;
- History: a tab that displays the history of test results.
Thanks to these features, it is possible to improve the speed and all the performance of your website.
You can do it too, you just need a lot of commitment and an excellent marketing and sales platform.
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