How to properly measure the speed on the website?

Try reviewing:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-run-a-website-speed-test-best-tools/
https://kinsta.com/blog/website-speed-test/

Thank you t-p; I did read the article, but unfortunately doesn’t really answer my question.

Hi @anag385,

I think it can matter if you have redirects setup. Do you have redirects setup from http to https or non www to www? Because it has to make more requests and more requests are slower.

Can you paste the URL you’re testing, so we can compare? Or a link to gmetrix/pagespeedinsights results?

Thanks,
M

Hi @mafnah,

I’m honestly not sure if I have redirects setup or how to check this.

Here is the URL I’m testing…

https://lovedbyanimals.com/
GTmetrix https://gtmetrix.com/reports/lovedbyanimals.com/RPfC1VYL/

Thanks in advance!

@anag385 I did some testing on pagespeed and gtmetrix and yes, it’s the redirection.

It takes about a second to do the http to https redirect. And 3 seconds to do a www to non www redirect. And https://www takes 4 – 5 seconds to redirect to https://. I think there is something wrong with the server configuration and you should contact hosting support.

As for search engine indexing I don’t think it will be an issue if your submitted sitemap has the https non www links.

Thank you @mafnah!

I will contact my hosting for sure. I thought there is something wrong with my SSL settings and not having CDN, but putting Cloudflare yesterday didn’t make much difference.

As for sitemaps, I didn’t submit sitemaps as my online school doesn’t think it’s important anymore and I don’t know much about it.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

You’re welcome!

Just now GTMetrix gave lovedbyanimals.com a C grade, but 3.6 seconds total page load time seems reasonable for such a large page with so many images and requests, and the report is at https://gtmetrix.com/reports/lovedbyanimals.com/SfypCBLk/

Loading lovedbyanimals.com on my screen loaded from the top down above the fold very fast, as I’d expect from GTMetrix’s finding of only 1.6s to largest content paint, so that’s good.

Just curious, are you using Bluehost shared hosting plus free Cloudflare?

The www is redirecting to non-www (naked/apex/bare domain) which is fine.

However, it might be a problem that lovedbyanimals.com is going to http (unsecure) instead of what most would want, https://lovedbyanimals.com/ (It does that consistently in an incognito browser window, but inconsistently in a regular browser which sometimes remembers https, so if you don’t see that, try an Incognito (Chrome) or InPrivate (Edge) window).

Also, Google will supposedly see https://lovedbyanimals.com/ and https://lovedbyanimals.com/ as two separate websites (which could dilute your link juice) and as duplicate content (which could hurt your PageRank) so you should probably do a redirect of https://lovedbyanimals.com/ to https://lovedbyanimals.com/