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What is a good PageSpeed Insights score for a business?

What a good PageSpeed Insights score is, how the 0 to 100 number is calculated, why 90 is not required and which results a business should act on.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Website speed monitoring: catch slowdowns before customers

Website speed monitoring for small businesses: what to watch, which free tools cover it, how often to check and who should receive the alert.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Site speed in GA4: how to connect speed to enquiries

Where site speed is in GA4, why there is no speed report, how to add Core Web Vitals measurement and how to link slow pages to lost enquiries.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Time to first byte: is your server the slow part?

Time to first byte explained for business owners: what TTFB measures, what a good result is, what slows servers down and when to change hosting.

07 Oct 20267 min read

How to compare your website speed with competitors

How to compare your website speed with competitors fairly: which pages to test, which data to use, what the gap means and when it is worth closing.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Why do website speed tests give different results?

Why website speed tests give different results between tools and between runs, which differences matter and how to get numbers you can compare.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Customers say your website is slow: what to do first

What to do when customers say your website is slow: the questions to ask, how to reproduce it, the likely causes and how to reply to the customer.

07 Oct 20267 min read

A website speed report directors will actually read

How to write a website speed report for directors: five numbers, what they cost the business, what changed and the decision needed, on one page.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Website speed optimisation costs in the UK

Website speed optimisation cost in the UK: indicative ranges for audits, fixes, hosting and rebuilds, what drives the price and how to compare quotes.

07 Oct 20268 min read

Website caching explained for business owners

Website caching explained in plain English: what browser, page and CDN caching do for speed, what can go wrong and what to ask your developer.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Do you need a CDN for a small business website?

Do you need a CDN for a small business website? What a content delivery network does, when a UK-only business benefits and what it costs.

07 Oct 20267 min read

Lazy loading: faster pages or missing content?

Lazy loading explained for business websites: what it speeds up, how it goes wrong, what must never be lazy loaded and how to check your own pages.

07 Oct 20267 min read

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