A complete PageSpeed Insights tutorial to help you achieve maximum performance on your site.

I accidentally became something of an expert on PageSpeed Insights while searching for the FASTEST platform (site builder theme) for websites for my next side projects targeting organic Google search traffic as an acquisition channel, so I thought I would share this information with everyone.

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0:00 Introduction
0:20 What is Google PageSpeed Insights?
0:33 Why is it important? (Core Web Vitals update)
1:55 PageSpeed Insights tutorial
2:29 How to use PageSpeed Insights (Part 1)
2:48 Understanding the results (overview)
3:00 Mobile vs. Desktop
3:15 Page Speed Insights vs. Lighthouse
5:11 Understanding results (in detail)
5:16 Important web vitals
7:05 Page Speed Insights “This URL” vs. “Origin”
9:05 Why you should focus on the mobile tab
9:40 Using the Performance Audit
11:46 Using the other audits
12:12 How to use Page Speed Insights (Part 2)
12:12 Improving Core Web Vitals and SEO
12:38 Improving onsite and onpage SEO
12:46 Speed up your WordPress website
14:13 PageSpeed Insights limitations

Sources cited in the video:
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My video on 3 ways to run PageSpeed Insights in bulk:
http://youtu.be/GXJ2N5Moy9w

Google’s timeline for rolling out the User Experience Ranking Update:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/11/bringing-page-experience-to-desktop

24% more traffic when optimizing Core Web Vitals
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/the-science-behind-web-vitals.html

Installing the Breeze plugin. At 3:18 https://youtu.be/X6WoPNB8-h8?siM8jav_NEkuTRgWVw&t198

Nitropack test at 4:26 https://youtu.be/vrzz7NY42dQ?siKuQZpq7YlUyShJzT&t266

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