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Technical SEO tools: Speed testing
From the course: Technical SEO
Technical SEO tools: Speed testing
- Site speed is a critical part of technical SEO. It impacts more than just your ability to rank. It impacts how long your visitors are willing to put up with your slow site speed. It can even negatively impact your conversion rates. In fact, site speed is so important that Google made some site speed signals a part of their core ranking algorithm starting in 2021. That's why several of the videos in this course deal with speed issues and how to solve them. But first, in order to know what you have to fix, you have to find the problems. That's where speed testing tools come in. There are many, many speed testing tools out there, and I'll show you some of my favorites. The good news is that most of these tools are free, so you can save your budget to pay for a developer to fix things up instead. The speed testing tool that many people turn to first is Google's PageSpeed Insights Tool or PSI. PSI gives you the insight on how Google will judge your site and their core algorithm, and I…
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