Bulk PageSpeed Insights Website Speed Test
By Patrick Stox
Technical SEO at Ahrefs
Bulk PageSpeed Insights Website Speed Test
Check the page speed or website speed for a group of your pages or you can compare your speed metrics vs your competitors. For example, you may want to run your page vs others in the top 10 of Google for targeted search results. When you run the tool, you'll get back desktop and mobile Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals for the page and Core Web Vitals for the website origin.
How to use the website speed test
Setup:
- Enter your Google PageSpeed Insights API key into the designated input field. (Learn how to generate an API key here.)
- Add the URLs you want to analyze (one per line).
Run the Analysis:
- Click on the "Test website speed" button to start fetching metrics. A progress indicator will show the status of the requests.
View Results:
- Use the Mobile/Desktop buttons and the result-type menu to switch between:
- Desktop CWV for the Page
- Desktop CWV for the Origin
- Desktop Lighthouse
- Mobile CWV for the Page
- Mobile CWV for the Origin
- Mobile Lighthouse
- Each metric is color-coded to show performance:
- Green: Good
- Yellow: Needs Improvement
- Red: Poor
This is an example output to show you how the speed scorecards look.
Patrick Stox is an independent SEO consultant. Former Product Advisor, Technical SEO, and Brand Ambassador at Ahrefs. Before that he was a Technical SEO at IBM for many years, worked at an agency, had his own consultancy, and was in-house at a B2B company. A long time ago he started his career as a developer.
He’s an organizer for the Triangle SEO Meetup, the Tech SEO Connect conference, he runs a Technical SEO Slack group, and is a moderator for /r/TechSEO on Reddit.
Patrick was the lead author for the SEO chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac and reviewer for the 2022 chapter. He helped define the role of Search Marketing Strategist for the US Department of Labor. He also co-wrote the SEO Book For Beginners by Ahrefs and was the Technical Review Editor for The Art of SEO 4th Edition.
He’s spoken at 100+ industry events including Pubcon, SMX, Tech SEO Boost, Ad World, Digital Summit, and many more. He’s written 100+ articles for industry sites like Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, MarTech, and right here at Ahrefs. He was a finalist for SEO Speaker of the Year and SEO Contributor of the Year at the 2018 Search Engine Land Awards. He was also an EzineArticles Platinum author back in the day and still has the mug to prove it.
Patrick has judged nearly a dozen search awards for multiple years including the US Search Awards, UK Search Awards, and Interactive Marketing Awards. He participated in and documented the world’s largest SEO contest to date, the Wix SEO Hero contest which he arguably should have won.
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