PageSpeed Insights VS WebPagetest

Monitoring and Profiling: Use tools like Google's PageSpeed Insights or Web.dev Measure to analyze your page's performance and get actionable recommendations. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Google PageSpeed Insights - Analyze the performance of your web pages and get suggestions for improvement. Website: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Try Google's Lighthouse test instead (aka PageSpeed Insights). It's primarily for testing performance but also gives a score for accessibility, with tips and links to articles on how to solve any issues it detects. Source: 10 months ago

Const CompressionPlugin = require('compression-webpack-plugin');... plugins: [ new CompressionPlugin({ filename: "[path].gz[query]", algorithm: "gzip", test: /\.(js|css)$/i, }),... When I used page insights to check how fast my webpage loads, it looks like my gz files aren't recognized, or at least one of them isn't recognized. Source: almost 1 year ago

Ah, well whoever you got to do it, consider running their work through PageSpeed Insights just to see how it measures up. Source: about 1 year ago

Trust neither. The most optimal option I've found is webpagetest.org Its been quite handy lately. This tool does look interesting. Source: 11 months ago

Webpagetest.org is another. Pagespeedinsights and lighthouse are great for identifying page load issues to fix, but actual page load times will always vary between the user and your web server. Universal analytics has some page load timings but that's going away soon and nothing afaik is in GA4. I've seen an example of building a page load timer in tag manager and dumping the results into an event. Source: about 1 year ago

So I am working on rebuilding our company's site with a new stack. I am running tests using webpagetest.org, and I am having trouble fully understanding the speed index results as well as the film strip view. The page renders quite fast everywhere I test it. Google Lighthouse shows it in the 90s + for performance score, however when I test the page on webpagetest, I get load times of 77 seconds (NOT MS) which is... Source: about 1 year ago

Webpagetest.org is great, and checking OP's site they have done an incredible job, I don't think I have ever made or seen an Ecom site this slick. Super clean waterfall view. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation regarding webpagetest.org, another user made a similar recommendation so I will check it out. Source: about 1 year ago