Google PageSpeed Insights is Insightful: A Great Tool for Agencies and Business Owners | TrustRadius

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google PageSpeed Insights is a tool we use daily for our client websites at our search engine marketing agency. From sales to account managers, our whole team uses the tool. It addresses website speed or performance.

Pros and Cons

Benchmark page speed in a quantitative, easy to understand manner.
Desktop and mobile assessment.
Feedback on what elements of your website need to be addressed to improve speed.

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

Return on Investment

Positive! It's easier to communicate with our clients where they are today with site speed and the steps needed to improve.

Usability

10

It's a free, easy to use tool.

Support Rating

1

There is no support from Google for the tool.

Alternatives Considered

Pingdom and GTmetrix

We prefer Google PageSpeed Insights to Pingdom's site speed tool and GTmetrix. It's easier to use and the data is highly actionable.

Other Software Used

Google Data Studio, Google Analytics, Google Search Console

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for marketing agencies and business owners who want to think about website speed or performance.