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How to Run PageSpeed Insights and Monitor Your Website Performance Easily

17 Sept 2026 · 4 min

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In this tutorial, the presenter walks web developers through xCloud’s enhanced PageSpeed Insights integration. Using the site cybernate360.com as a demo, they show how to access PageSpeed reports from the xCloud dashboard, run analyses on different WordPress themes (Twenty Twenty‑Five, Ollie, Blogspare, Hello Elementor, Neve, News Blogger, SilverStorm, News Spare, News Crunch) with identical content generated via FakerPress, and compare the resulting performance, SEO, and accessibility scores. The video highlights xCloud’s ability to retain raw PageSpeed data and display it as a time‑series, allowing users to see score trends over days and switch between desktop and mobile views. The presenter emphasizes the practical value of built‑in monitoring—eliminating the need for manual spreadsheets—and encourages xCloud users to leverage this feature for tracking performance growth or decline.

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If you're a web developer, you're probably familiar with PageSpeed Insights, a tool that tells you how your site's doing as far as performance, SEO, accessibility, etc. But I want to show you how xCloud, the host, has enhanced that tool. Let me show you. You can see PageSpeed Insights here. I ran it on cybernate360.com. But here I am in the xCloud dashboard. I am on the panel for that site, cybernate360.com, and in the left menu we go to Site Monitoring, Page Speed, and we pull this up. Now if you've never run it, it's going to look pretty empty, but I've been running it for a few days now and using different themes with the same data to see what the difference looks like. So I started with the WordPress default theme, Twenty Twenty-Five. I tried Ollie. Here, let's see, we can look at some of the ones I tried. Blogspare, Hello Elementor, Neve, News Blogger, SilverStorm, News Spare, News Crunch. And I imported data using FakerPress. So all the themes had the same data. And the, the coolest thing about running PageSpeed Insights on xCloud is that you can see your results over time. Uh, it's, it just uses regular PageSpeed Insights, so it's not like they're adjusting or meddling with the, with the data. But here you can see on the 17th, I ran a base query using 2025. And then I switched to Ollie and ran it again and it was almost the same, but SEO improved very slightly. And then I used some others. I don't remember. I think this is Neve. I don't remember which ones these are, but they're pretty similar, which, which is fair. But what's interesting is that this one on the 18th was WordPress 7.0 using Twenty Twenty-Five again. And I think it's interesting that SEO dropped and accessibility dropped just a little bit over the original. I'm not going to make any more comments about that because that's not what this video is about. But if you scroll down, you can see the actual scores and you can view details. Now we click that. It takes us to a view like this for that one particular query. And you can see all the usual stuff and what you need to do, etc. Now you see a mobile link here. I'm going to go back one and use that one. You can switch the whole interface to mobile and see all the results for mobile. Interestingly, of course, performance dropped on all of them a little bit, but some more than others. I would have thought it'd be consistent, but it's not. So if you use PageSpeed Insights, the ability to see results over time is pretty darn valuable because if you don't, then you have to write them down yourself in a spreadsheet or something. Uh, if you want to watch growth over time or loss over time, then this is the kind of thing you really, really need. So if you're on xCloud and you use PageSpeed Insights, make sure that you check it out.