How to Configure & Test Page Speed

Gathering Page Speed Score Baselines & Understanding Page Speed Performance

Prior to enabling Huckabuy’s Page Speed and configuring it to optimize your site it is recommended that you gather Lighthouse scores for various URLs on your site to understand the impact of Huckabuy’s Page Speed.

Technical performance is now a foundational requirement for visibility in AI-powered search results. Generative engines like Google's AI Overviews prioritize sources that are reliable, authoritative, and provide a seamless user experience. The introduction of Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as a Core Web Vital in March 2024 highlights this focus on real-user interactivity. According to Google's 2024 developer guidance, a poor INP score directly correlates with user frustration. Furthermore, Google's research from 2023 shows that as page load time goes from one to three seconds, the probability of a bounce increases by 32%. Baselining your performance is not just about a score; it is about ensuring your site's infrastructure is robust enough to be considered a primary source by AI. Huckabuy’s Page Speed software automates these complex optimizations, addressing critical metrics from Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) to INP, ensuring your content is served quickly to both users and AI crawlers.

Begin by selecting a few URLs that are important to your business, for example the site’s home page, a product page, or any other page you know is slow. Run aGoogle Lighthousereport orPage Speed Insights, both mobile and desktop, for the selected pages. Recording the Lighthouse scores and checking the “Opportunities” section will give you a good idea of what Page Speed boosters and enhancements could be turned on to improve the site, i.e. “Minify CSS & Javascript”, “Reduce Javascript Execution Time”. Now that you have a baseline of page speed scores you can enable Huckabuy’s Page Speed and begin to configure it to your site.

After you have enabled and configured Page Speed you can run new Lighthouse reports for your selected URLs to analyze the performance and understand the impact of our product.

Configuring Huckabuy’s Page Speed

The Page Speed view of the Huckabuy Dashboard provides all enhancements and boosters available for configuration on your site. The Sitewide Page Speed Settings section at the bottom of page provides a list of enhancements and their description/impact, these can be applied across your site by toggling on and off.

Route Based Page Speed Enhancements

With these configurations you can add various enhancements to individual URLs or URL routes to boost page speed impact. Each enhancement can be toggled on and off, offers a description with its impact, and allows advanced settings customizing the enhancement for compatibility with your site.

Adding Route Based Included URLs

• Create the URL pattern you would like configured. Adding an * (asterisk) will create a wildcard and apply that configuration to all pages following the URL route. i.e. “checkouts/*

Learn how Huckabuy’s Page Speed product can help you achieve these results.