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How To Check Page Speed in Google Analytics

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Website speed is crucial for user experience and search engine rankings. While Google Analytics 4 removed the convenient Site Speed reports from the Behavior section, you can still easily monitor your page performance using Google's dedicated tools.

This tutorial will walk you through using Google PageSpeed Insights to analyze your website's loading speed, examine Core Web Vitals metrics, and understand your overall performance scores for both mobile and desktop devices.

Here's how to check page speed in Google

  1. Open Google PageSpeed Insights and input your website URL into the search box.
  2. Click the Analyze button to start the page speed test.
  3. Switch between the Mobile and Desktop tabs to view performance data for different devices.
  4. Review the Core Web Vitals section which displays FCP (First Contentful Paint), LCP (Largest Contentful Paint), and CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) metrics.
  5. Scroll down the results page to view your complete performance score and detailed recommendations from PageSpeed Insights.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Google Analytics 4 removed the Site Speed reports that were available under the Behavior section in Universal Analytics. To check page speed now, you need to use Google PageSpeed Insights or set up custom tracking configurations.