HOW TO: Get Google Page Speed Report Via W3 Total Cache

Obviously, if you are blogger or webmaster, you would have tried both Google Page Speed and W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin. Now this tutorial is to combine both and help you to give better performance.

Google Page Speed evaluates the page’s conformance to a number of different rules and gives score according to it. W3 Total Cache is a famous WordPress plugin which improve WordPress’ performance and user experience of your site via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network.

In this tutorial, I’ll share some simple ways to get Google Speed Report right on your dashboard.

Here you have to do two things in order to get Google Speed Report on your dashboard.

Get Page Speed API Key from Google APIs.
Update your W3 Total Cache plugin settings.

Get Page Speed API Key from Google APIs

To acquire a free API key, visit the APIs Console. Go to the Project Home tab, activate the Page Speed Online API, and accept the Terms of Service.

Then go to the API Access tab. The API key is in the Simple API Access section.

That’s it. You can use this API key or generate a new key. Now copy this key and keep it safe!

Update your W3 Total Cache plugin settings

Upgrade the plugin to the latest version if you haven’t. Now go to W3 Total Cache settings | Miscellaneous section.

Now paste that API key here. After entering the API Key, select “Save all settings”.

Now go to your dashboard, and now you can see instant Google Page Speed Report.

The Page Speed Score (0-100) indicates how much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room for improvement, while a low score indicates more room for improvement. View all results shows all the relevant and detail analysis.

It helped me to save my time, and hope it helps you too.

10 thoughts on “HOW TO: Get Google Page Speed Report Via W3 Total Cache”

Working from past few days on improving my site's loading speed. This will prove helpful and also a good time saver. Thanks for the tip.

This is New Featured W3 Total Cache ?

That's a nice move from W3 Team. I upgraded to the latest version as soon as the update was available. But it has some issues with the minify functions. Frederick told me that the update will be made anytime soon to fix that bug.

This is really useful, I have just updated the plugin and made the setting as described in plugin.

Great tips. I have used the Google Chrome page speed report but do not know if this API page speed is available to integrate with w3 total cache.

Great tip, Pradeep.. I am using Super Cache plugin.. will install W3 and try this on my blog 🙂

Thanks…

Thanks buddy 🙂 I have updated and not checked the new features…

Great tip,I did n't know about API access of Google Page Speed.I use the online speed test and from Firebug in Firefox.This will make speed testing simpler.I'll use this tip.