How can I check performance of my website

To check the performance of the website you can either use the website browser: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/#devtools or a web-based version here: https://pagespeed.web.dev/

The performance of a website in terms of loading speed is based on many factors such as the size of assets like photography and video, how many scripts are loaded, the hosting server, and whether you use a caching solution. Amongst many other things.

To have your website perform optimally you have to make sure these things are optimised. At KIJO we use Google Lighthouse as a standard benchmark on which to judge a site's performance.

Using Lighthouse helps you see your website the same way that Google does. You can use the actionable insights it delivers to optimize your pages for better search engine ranking results.

The Lighthouse reports consist of five categories:

• Performance
• Accessibility
• SEO
• Best practices
• Progressive web app

To use Lighthouse score you need to access the dev tools while viewing your site. To do this you can right-click and click inspect, by clicking on the lighthouse tab you can then run a report.