Google PageSpeed Insights vs. The Search Monitor

If you notice your site is taking a long time to load, then you should first use PageSpeed Insights to see what can quickly be optimized (also check your file sizes, hosting server, NGINX and other common sources of slow speed, too.) And, if you've notice gradually fewer Organic Search visits, PageSpeed Insights might be able to help. As Google is reducing the prevalence of slow sites, you could be losing traffic. Speed up your page load times by finding what is blocking renders, slowing down contentful paints, and other critical page speed signals.

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It would be less appropriate for businesses that cannot afford its services. I believe that almost any company can benefit from this but it needs to make sense financially. It is really well suited for mid-large businesses who want to target consumers through search engines and wants to stay ahead of competitors and see what keyphrases and words that they are using to better suit your content.

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• Measure page loading time
• Compared loading times against Google's benchmarks
• Identifies opportunities for web page performance improvements
• Identifies sub-optimal web page attributes that slow down page loading
• Compare performance on mobile and desktop devices easily

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• Competitors bidding against our keywords
• Threat analysis
• Automatially sending alerts if specific metrics change

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• The suggestions for improvement can be technical for non-developers.

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• Different types of alerts
• iPad better integration

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It's a free, easy to use tool

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There is no support from Google for the tool.

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I think GTmetrix has some feedback that PageSpeed doesn't provide, but Google's tool is easier overall and has a better user experience; also offers compressed images, CSS, and javascript files if that's the case. Also, Google has extensive documentation to help you better understand what can be done to improve your grade.

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Search monitor gives better visibility on what competitors are doing for a bulk of keywords, while SEMRush lets you just see how strong the competition is for a specific domain/keyword.

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• Faster loading site, give results faster to visitors
• Buyers can get to the end of the buying cycle faster

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• Easier to target locally
• Violations have been easy to submit taking less time away from the team
• Was able to increase SEO

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