Google Pagespeed Insights is a Web service created by the Google SEO team that evaluates the performance of web pages and provides suggestions on how to improve their speed and performance.
This is a recommended practice, since today Google ranks fast loading websites much better than it did in previous years.
The "Google Pagespeed Insights for WordPress" plugin integrates the Google Pagespeed Insights service inside the WordPress backend, providing tools to analyze local pages and get reports on their performance.
These scans can be automated via cron jobs and kept up to date with the most recent page versions or WP core, plugin or theme updates.
The plugin is available via a triple licensing model, with a free GPL version for all to use and two commercial licenses with extra features.
Installation:
Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
Features:
- Free Edition Features:
- Separate reports for Desktop and Mobile pages
- Detailed page reporting
- In-depth report summaries
- Premium Edition Features:
- Report snapshots
- Snapshot comparison tool
- Add/Import and scan custom URLs
- Scheduled checks
- Agency Edition Features:
- Use with an unlimited number of websites
What is new in this release:
- Fixed problem with temp directory used by Google API which was not writable on many shared hosting environments, and prevented the plugin from working properly. Replaced sys_get_temp_dir function with WordPress get_temp_dir function to resolve.
What is new in version 1.0.3:
- Tweaked interactions with WPDB so that it will properly get the table prefix for WordPress multisite installations.
What is new in version 1.0.2:
- Fixed accidental use of some php shorttags (<? instead of <?php) that was causing activation errors for some. (Thank you bekar09 for first finding this error)
- Tweaked ajax.js for better performance (Thanks to Pippin for the suggestion)
- Tweaked use of get_pages() for better performance (Thanks to Pippin for the suggestion)
- Fixed a number of PHP notices
Requirements:
- WordPress 3.3 or higher
- Google API key
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