ProRank SEO

PageSpeed Insights Integration

Monitor Core Web Vitals and optimize page performance

Overview

Google PageSpeed Insights analyzes your page performance and provides suggestions to make your pages load faster. ProRank SEO integrates with PageSpeed Insights API to monitor your Core Web Vitals and performance metrics.

Core Web Vitals

ProRank SEO tracks all three Core Web Vitals that impact your search rankings:

LCP

Largest Contentful Paint

Loading performance. Good: <2.5s

FID

First Input Delay

Interactivity. Good: <100ms

CLS

Cumulative Layout Shift

Visual stability. Good: <0.1

Setup Instructions

Step 1: Get API Key

  1. Go to Google Cloud Console
  2. Create a new project or select existing
  3. Enable PageSpeed Insights API
  4. Go to Credentials → Create Credentials → API Key
  5. Copy your API key

Step 2: Configure in ProRank

  1. Navigate to ProRank SEO → Analytics
  2. Find PageSpeed Insights card
  3. Click "Configure API"
  4. Enter your API key
  5. Select monitoring frequency (daily/weekly)
  6. Click "Save & Start Monitoring"

Step 3: Select Pages to Monitor

Choose which pages to monitor for performance:

  • Homepage (automatically included)
  • Top 10 traffic pages
  • Key conversion pages
  • Custom page selection

Performance Metrics

Lab Data

Simulated performance in controlled environment:

  • • First Contentful Paint (FCP)
  • • Speed Index
  • • Time to Interactive (TTI)
  • • Total Blocking Time (TBT)
  • • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
  • • Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

Field Data

Real user experience data from Chrome users:

  • • Real-world Core Web Vitals
  • • Origin summary
  • • URL-specific metrics
  • • Mobile vs Desktop performance
  • • 28-day aggregated data
  • • Percentile distributions

API Limits

The free tier includes 25,000 queries per day. ProRank SEO optimizes API usage by caching results and scheduling scans efficiently. For most sites, monitoring 50 pages daily stays well within limits.

Optimization Recommendations

ProRank SEO automatically translates PageSpeed recommendations into actionable tasks:

Image Optimization

  • • Auto-convert to WebP format
  • • Implement lazy loading
  • • Serve responsive images
  • • Add explicit dimensions

JavaScript Optimization

  • • Defer non-critical scripts
  • • Minify JavaScript files
  • • Remove unused code
  • • Implement code splitting

CSS Optimization

  • • Inline critical CSS
  • • Defer non-critical styles
  • • Minify CSS files
  • • Remove unused CSS

Server Optimization

  • • Enable text compression
  • • Leverage browser caching
  • • Use CDN for assets
  • • Optimize server response time

Monitoring & Alerts

Automated Monitoring

ProRank SEO automatically checks your page performance:

  • Daily scans for critical pages
  • Weekly scans for all monitored pages
  • Historical data tracking
  • Trend analysis and reporting

Performance Alerts

Get notified when performance drops:

  • Core Web Vitals failing
  • Performance score below threshold
  • Mobile performance issues
  • Significant metric regression

Pro Tip

Focus on improving Core Web Vitals first - these directly impact your search rankings. ProRank SEO highlights which optimizations will have the biggest impact on your scores.