The new site shift is ready, you are ready for that big press release. Your consultants claim the site is "performant" and of course you believe them, especially when signing off their invoices. However - is trust really better than control?
Luckily these days technology provides us tools to validate the claims. First of all every site owners big daddy Google provides Lighthouse - a scoring mechanism giving your site a score between 0 and 100. In order to use it you need Chrome and an extension - then just enter your url.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lighthouse/blipmdconlkpinefehnmjammfjpmpbjk
Why bother? In May Google will roll out changes the pagerank algorithm (that yummy "free" organic trafic to your site) and add Core Web Vitals to the scoring. Read more here:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for-page-experience?hl=en
To avoid being completely Google-centric I would recommend trying both GT Metrix and Pagespeedtest as well:
Try it out straight away and bring your suppliers to the performance table!
If you are in need of trustworthy advice - get in touch with us at Tonrik. We are happy to assist on your digital journey.