gtmetrix.com website tutorial

GTMetrix.com

Website

Tutorial

What is

GTMetrix.com?

GTMetrix.com

is a free tool

that analyzes

your pages’

speed

performance.

Using Page

Speed and

YSlow,

GTMetrix

generates

scores for

your pages

and offers

actionable

recommenda-

tions on how

to fix them.

Everybody

deserves a

fast web

experience.

GTMetrix can

help you

develop a

faster, more

efficient and

all around

improved

website

experience

for your

users.

GTMetrix is

developed by

the good

Folks at

Gossamer

Threads,

a Vancouver-

based

company

with over

19 years

experience

in web

technology.

“The web

should be fast.”

– Google, Inc.

Let’s

get

started!

Locate your

favorite

browser.

In our

example, it’s

Google Chrome

Click icon

In address bar,

type: www.

gtmetrix.com

Press Enter

Here’s the

home page of

GTMetrix.com

For better

experience of

using the site,

let’s sign

up for an

account.

Click Sign Up

A window

will appear,

just fill it out

for needed

information:

First name,

Last name,

Email,

Password,

Confirm your

Password

and click

Create

Account

button.

Click

If creating

an account is

successful,

user will be

redirected to

dashboard:

Put address

of desired

site that you

want to

analyze then

click Go button.

Click

The outcome

is like this:

Summary

showed that

the website

address

which has

been

analyzed

resulted in

Grade B.

There are

more options to

choose from.

Upon getting

scores, start

to optimize

your site. Let’s

check on the

Breakdown.

There’s a lot of

recommenda-

tions in the

list that will

definitely

help you

determine

what factors

cause your

site to be

fast or slow

in loading.

Grade, Type

and Priority

are also

included

in this part.

Let’s discuss

YSlow tab

this time.

YSlow tab

recommends

things that

make your site

slow in loading.

Like on the

previous tab,

Grade, Type

and Priority

are also

included

in this part.

The third tab

is about

Timeline.

This shows the

Waterfall of

your site.

The Waterfall

Graph displays

the loading

behaviour

of your site.

It can be

used to

discover

simple issues

or more

complex

issues.

User can view

the larger

version of it,

just click

the following

link:

Click

And for the

last tab which

is History,

it is not

applicable in

our example.

To keep a

record of

report,

just download

the file in

PDF form.

One of the

benefits of

registered

user is to

have access

to this:

GTMetrix’

recommenda-

tions are

are meant to

be generic,

best practices

but not every-

thing is

required to

be applied

in your

site.

Congratulations!

You’ve just

learned

how to use

GTMetrix.com

and start

to optimize

your site

and work

with various

organizations

to make

intelligent

web strategy

and

infrastructure

decisions.