Page Speed

Page speed refers to how quickly a web page's content loads and becomes interactive for users. It is both a direct Google ranking factor and a critical user experience metric. Page speed is measured through several metrics: First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Time to Interactive (TTI), and Total Blocking Time (TBT). Improving page speed involves: optimizing and compressing images, minifying CSS, JavaScript, and HTML, leveraging browser caching, using a content delivery network (CDN), reducing server response time, implementing lazy loading for below-the-fold content, and eliminating render-blocking resources. Google PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse are free tools for analyzing and improving page speed.