How to check your WordPress website performance

Guide > Monitor > How to check your WordPress website performance

How to check your WordPress website performance

ManageWP website Performance tool runs the analysis using the Google PageSpeed and Yahoo! YSlow ruleset. It gives you an overall grade, as well as the breakdown of the factors that affect your website speed. For each element you get a recommendation how to improve your overall score.

In order to find your Performance Check, click on the website you wish to run the check on, on the left hand side you will see a set of options, click on Performance. Here you can see previous performance checks and when they were completed. Choose the Performance Check you need and click on the View Details button to see the details of that Performance Check.

How to run a new Performance Check

When you want to run a new Performance Check, click on the green button. Next to it you can select the scan region.

After your scan is complete you will get a detailed report showing you the following:

Page speed
Yslow speed
Timeline – this feature is great because it gets into the gritty details and figures out how to fix the website speed.

How to turn on scheduled Performance Check

The premium version comes with Automated Performance Check. Click on the Scheduling tab in order to set the frequency of your Performance checks.

You can set Check Frequency, when to alert you, Load time for alerting and Scan Region.

Under the Event Notifications tab, you are able to turn on email or Slack notifications that could be sent to you, your Collaborators and your Clients.

You could also turn on Event Notifications for the Performance Check by clicking on your login details in the top-right corner and clicking on the Settings button. After that, navigate to the Notifications tab and click on the Performance icon under Event Notifications.