WebPageTest Tutorial: How to Speed Up Your Website Step by Step

Want to speed up your site without paying for another tool? I’ll show you how to use WebPageTest for free! (And why it's better than Google Pagespeed Insights.) Free SEO content audit checklist: https://sheknowsseo.co/audit In this video, you’ll learn how to use WebPageTest to test your homepage or a blog post, read your results, and find what’s slowing your site down. We’ll walk through the waterfall chart, first run vs repeat view, page speed metrics, caching, images, plugins, scripts, and hosting so you can figure out what to fix first. Timestamps: 00:00 WebPageTest tutorial 01:18 Running a speed test 04:08 Reading the summary 05:34 Page speed metrics that matter 07:30 How to read the waterfall chart 10:17 Checking images, fonts, and plugins 18:09 Using the Opportunities tab 25:24 Tools to improve page speed If your site feels slow, run your homepage and one typical post through WebPageTest today. Then use the report to find the fix that will make the biggest difference first. 🔨 Tools I mentioned: https://Webpagetest.org WP Rocket: http://sheknowsseo.co/recommends/wp-r... Lyrical Host (use "sheknowsseo" for 10% off): https://sheknowsseo.co/recommends/lyr... ShortPixel: https://sheknowsseo.co/recommends/sho... ------------------------------------------- 🎥 Watch Next: Microsoft Clarity Tutorial:    • Microsoft Clarity Step-by-Step Tutorial: B...   Bing Webmaster Tools Tutorial:    • How to Submit Your Website to Bing Webmast...   ------------------------------------------- 👍 If you liked this video, please like and subscribe:    / @sheknowsseo   🔥 Get my FREE Content Audit Checklist for SEO: https://sheknowsseo.co/audit 🏆 Check out all my freebies and courses here: https://sheknowsseo.co/everything