Since Google’s latest speed update, the loading times of your pages have become an important ranking factor, which is why optimizing your pagespeed plays an important role in effective SEO. For this reason, BAVOKO SEO Tools PRO provides you with various powerful tools for pagespeed analysis, right after the connecting with Google Analytics is established.
With BAVOKO SEO Tools you can easily monitor your pagespeed in various analysis views to stay up-to-date at all times. During the pagespeed analysis you will also be provided with further useful information such as server connection times, used browsers, countries and devices, as well as loading times of various files.
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Why is the Pagespeed so important?
Above all, the loading time of your page is especially important for the users. For example, half of your visitors expect your site to load in less than two seconds. If a page loads only one second longer, this can result in a 7% reduction in conversion rate and even an 11% decrease in total page views. It is therefore particularly important for you to meet the expectations of your visitors with regard to pagespeed.
But there is another major reason why loading times are important for your SEO: The Google Speed Update.
Since this update the loading times of domains are included directly in the largest search engine’s ranking calculation. This new metric rewards sites, that meet the users’ needs for fast loading times, with better rankings and correspondingly results in lower rankings for domains with slow pagespeeds.
Setup – Pagespeed Data in the WordPress Backend
In order to analyze the loading times of your site with BAVOKO SEO Tools, make sure that our plugin has been completely set up in WordPress beforehand. This requires both a link to the Google Analytics API and the tracking code of your page to be adapted.
Pagespeed Analysis with BAVOKO SEO Tools
After the installation, the full Pagespeed analysis is available in BAVOKO SEO Tools in the “Performance” menu item. Within the plugin interface, the analysis of your loading times is divided into three different views:
Pagespeed Overview
In the “Overview” you will find the average loading time of your pages, the average page size and the average number of requests per page as well as a graphical representation of their historical progress.
Within the table in the lower part of this view, you can also analyze the average loading times of your pages in more detail according to “device”, “browser” and “country”.
Page Performance Analysis
To perform a focused pagespeed analysis of individual pages, navigate to the “Pages” menu item. In addition to the above-mentioned average KPIs, you will now also find the option of tracking the distribution of loading times on your pages within the “Pagespeed Distribution”, as well as analyzing individual pages for your loading times in the table below.
To analyze the performance of your pages in more detail, you can click the CO icon to automatically open the “Performance” section in the Content Optimizer. There you will find more detailed information about the respective page and its loading times.
Request Analysis
Within the tab “Resources” you can also analyze the loading times of the individual requests of your website in the form of CSS, Javascript and image files in various detailed views.
Performance: CSS Resources
Performance: Image Resources
In the respective analysis views you will then find the same values as above, such as size, accessibility and many more, as well as a filterable and sortable table containing the various files and useful additional information.
With the extension of BAVOKO SEO Tools by the Request Manager it will soon be possible to analyze the requests of individual plugins, themes and third-party scripts more precisely. You will then also be able to deactivate them on the pages on which they are not needed in order to minimize the number of requests.
Pagespeed Analysis of your WordPress Pages with
BAVOKO SEO Tools
BAVOKO SEO Tools enables you to precisely analyze the loading times of your WordPress page and to efficiently improve the performance of your pages based on your results.
With BAVOKO SEO Tools you can follow the history of your website’s pagespeed and carry out extensive performance analyses of individual pages in order to easily identify the causes for overly slow pages. With the help of the Resources Analysis and the upcoming Request Manager you will also get access to a number of unique tools for optimizing your pagespeed.
