HTTP requests are received in the background of your website and sent to the user’s browser for each page view. The impact of these requests on your page speed is enormous and particularly important for you, as the loading times in turn have a direct effect on the user experience. The fewer requests are sent on your site, the faster and more user-friendly it is. In addition, since the speed update from Google, page speed also plays an important role for your Google Rankings.
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What are Requests?
For each file linked in the HTML document that is to be loaded when a page is opened, the browser sends an HTTP request to your web server. These include CSS, JavaScript, images, icons, and other files.
The server then sends the requested files to the user’s browser. The more files are linked within your HTML document, the more requests are generated. With many requests, your page speed slows down accordingly.
It is therefore important to keep an overview of your website requests with the help of the request analysis in BAVOKO SEO Tools, in order to achieve an optimized page speed.
Request Analysis in BAVOKO SEO Tools
Within “Performance” > “Resources”, analyze the requests created by the CSS, JavaScript and image files of your pages and check their influence on your website’s performance in all relevant detail.
To do this, select the corresponding tab at the top of the plugin.
Performance: CSS Resources
Performance: Image Resources
In the upper part of the analysis views you always find a diagram, which shows you at a glance how the file sizes of the individual requests of your website look like and how many of them are accessible. In addition, a compilation of the most important performance data for your requests is available. The table allows you to analyze other important request information such as the URL, its accessibility and status code, as well as loading time and size.
With a click on the eye icon you open a list of all pages on which the respective file is linked. Click on a page in this list to jump directly to the Content Optimizer‘s Performance tab, where you can then analyze the requests and page speed of this page in more detail.
Available soon: Deactivating Requests
The performance analysis of BAVOKO SEO Tools will soon be extended by the Request Manager. This means that our WordPress plugin will in future also have practical tools with which you can analyze the requests of individual plugins, themes and third-party scripts in detail and deactivate them on pages, where they are not required. In this way, you can save significant amounts of requests and efficiently improve your page speed.
Analyzing Requests and optimizing Page Speed with BAVOKO SEO Tools
In order to improve the loading times of your WordPress page, it is extremely important that you can always keep track of the number of requests to your server and quickly find out which files trigger these requests.
BAVOKO SEO Tools includes various views for the analysis of your requests and thereby provides you with all relevant data about the page speed of your single pages in the shortest possible time.
The tools contained in the Request Manager will also enable you to make massive improvements to your request quantities by deactivating them in a systematic manner.
