Mobile Performance Test: Measure the speed of your website on mobile
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:03 am
How many times have I talked about the importance of your website loading fast on mobile? I have certainly talked a lot, especially now that Mobile First Indexing has been announced . That's why many people ask me how they can know if the mobile version of their site is fast enough. It's very easy, just run a mobile performance test .
What is a mobile performance test?
A mobile performance test is a performance test on mobile devices. It basically consists of seeing how fast a web page loads on a mobile device, although in terms of performance we could also consider other less technical parameters, such as whether the width of the website adapts to the width of the screen or whether navigation is fluid.
The importance of mobile loading speed
It's very simple, the loading speed directly influences the band database rate of a website. According to data from Google itself:
With every additional 1-3 seconds of loading time, the likelihood of a user leaving the site increases by 32%.
With 3 to 5, it increases by 90%
With 6 to 10, it increases by 123%
It seems like just a few seconds, doesn't it? But you too get impatient if content doesn't load quickly on your mobile device. That's why Google came up with the AMP standard .
How to do a mobile performance test
There are many tools to check the speed of a website on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, although the most well-known is Page Speed Insights .
The data for each tool may vary, but Page Speed was developed by Google and since it is the search engine where most of us want to position ourselves, I would trust their opinion.
What is a mobile performance test?
A mobile performance test is a performance test on mobile devices. It basically consists of seeing how fast a web page loads on a mobile device, although in terms of performance we could also consider other less technical parameters, such as whether the width of the website adapts to the width of the screen or whether navigation is fluid.
The importance of mobile loading speed
It's very simple, the loading speed directly influences the band database rate of a website. According to data from Google itself:
With every additional 1-3 seconds of loading time, the likelihood of a user leaving the site increases by 32%.
With 3 to 5, it increases by 90%
With 6 to 10, it increases by 123%
It seems like just a few seconds, doesn't it? But you too get impatient if content doesn't load quickly on your mobile device. That's why Google came up with the AMP standard .
How to do a mobile performance test
There are many tools to check the speed of a website on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, although the most well-known is Page Speed Insights .
The data for each tool may vary, but Page Speed was developed by Google and since it is the search engine where most of us want to position ourselves, I would trust their opinion.