gtmetrix.com website tutorial
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This is a step by step tutorial on how to use GTMetrix.com Website.TRANSCRIPT
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.