Google Page Speed report gives you an insight into your site’s performance. This tool is very useful if you are concerned about your site’s performance and user experience. To ensure best performance practices, then you need Google Page Speed tools and it will be easier to have it on your WordPress dashboard than heading over every time to their site to check on your site’s performance.
Enabling the Google Page Speed report on your WordPress dashboard will allow you to easily get the Google Page Speed results of your site from right within your WordPress dashboard. Your site will be analyzed by this tool and the report displayed for you on your dashboard.
Now let’s see how we can enable the Google Page Speed report on your WordPress dashboard using the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) plugin. So if you haven’t installed this awesome plugin – W3 Total Cache (W3TC) plugin, then immediately do so as this plugin is one of the most important and widely used optimization plugins you can find on the internet today. Ensure it’s the latest version of W3 Total Cache (W3TC) plugin that you installed and activated.
Then go to Google apis, click on services. (Note you will need a Gmail account to access this service).
Scroll down towards the middle of the page until you see PageSpeed Insights API, click on the “off” button next to it to enable it, remember you will have to accept all the terms and conditions Google presets to you.
Next click on API Access on the same Google apis, scroll down towards the Simple API Access and copy your API key.
The go to your WordPress dashboard and click on the W3 Total Cache plugin settings plugins to reveal the other options. Go to General Settings > Miscellaneous. Enable Goggle Page Speed dashboard widget and enter the API key you copied earlier under the Page Speed API Key and click on save all settings.
Then go to your W3 Total Cache plugin dashboard; Performance > Dashboard and scroll down to the bottom to see a new Google Page Speed report widget added to your dashboard.
I hope now you can easily enable the Google Page Speed report widget on your WordPress dashboard following the guide on this tutorial. If you don’t understand any steps used on the tutorial, then use the comment form below to ask your questions.
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Wow great plugin. Really helpful for me. I installed this plugin very awesome it is. I didn’t know about this plugin before. It’s new for me.
One thing I want to ask. Have this plugin any disadvantage.
Hi Nwosu,
Excellent write mate. Found this on Triberr and shared. I usually use w3tc to check on that but I think with the latest update, the removed it right? Maybe I’m wrong lol.
Anyway, great to see it on the dashboard and the guides for that. Keep it up mate.
None that i know.
Thanks Reginald for your contribution…
Thanks Nwosu for bringing this to the limelight. In addition to this, Webmaster also displays a quantitative information about Page speed. I’ve also yet not installed W3 total cache but soon do so.
You really need to install this plugin….thanks for your comment.
thanks for sharing this nwosu :) too bad i am just using super cache not the total cache
Hi Nwosu,
Am using W3 super cache, is it possible to enable the Google speed report with it?
I am only sure of W3 Total Cache (W3TC) plugin
Hi Nwosu,
Awesome write-up mate…..page speed service has become must for every bloggers, and it has direct impact over the success of a blog…..I have used Google’s Page Speed service and checked the report in Google page speed insight…the improvements are quite brilliant….
Hi Nwosu Mavtrevor
With your guidance i configured my webmaster page analysis within 15 minutes.
i can see slow page speed warning for few of my pages in webmaster tools. do you have few suggestion to optimize web pages for better speed.
Thanks for Sharing
Easy and clean tutorial Nwoso. Doing this through WP is the only way to go; saves you a world of time versus visiting some site each time. Thanks!
Hi Nwosu,
Pretty useful post, I think “Eliminate render blocking javascript and css” and “Leverage browser caching” is very common problem. Are you aware of any plugin to deal with it successfully?
None that i know will keep looking…
Hello Marilyn,
Super cache is no where near the W3 total coach. W3TC is fully equip and highly reduces your blogs files and make your blog faster compare to how Super works. You should try it out :)
Hello Nwosu,
I’d say that, this is indeed a nice tutorial. You know, i have never used the Google page speed before because i am using a different speed checker :). I will definitely try the Google speed report and see how it improve my blog :)
Which are you using?
I made a Google Pagespeed Insights plugin for WordPress that goes quite a bit beyond the scope of the W3 Total Cache integration. It is a great tool for people who are looking to improve their sites performance based on pagespeed recommendations.
My plugin runs and stores pagespeed reports on all of your WordPress pages, which allows you to visualize your highest and lowest performing pages. You can also view report summaries to see the ‘big picture’ of your sites performance. Summaries show the biggest areas for improvement across all reports.
The free version is available on the WordPress Codex: http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-pagespeed-insights/
My website includes additional plugin information and videos, as well as the premium plugin and features: http://mattkeys.me/products/google-pagespeed-insights/
Thanks Matt for your share will definitely check it out. Does it make recommendations on how one can improve the individual pages?
Sorry for the super late response!
You probably figured it out already but yes, the plugin provides detailed information on a per page basis showing you what you need to do to improve your page speed. Including a pie chart to visually show the impact of different recommendations.
Its ok, glad you could come back. Thanks for the information.