: Google Analytics SiteSpeed - Higher than expected compared to other speed metrics? Any reason that Google Analytics SiteSpeed would consistently be 2 seconds higher than expected? We've tried

@Shelley277

You'll always get the Site Speed score higher when you looking into Google analytics because Google is testing the Site Speed from many different geographic regions and shows an average of it and not from only one geographic location which you are seeing in many 3rd party tools.

So if you want to improve the the load time in all geographic regions, I suggest using CDN which can accelerate the data delivery speed in across the globe and you'll see an increase in Speed.

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@Miguel251

Factors that can affect website performance accuracy.


Analytics tag placement location
Manually increase the Sitespeed sample rate to test a larger percentage of visitors
Create a custom script to test speed and then compare with Google's numbers


I recommend adding your analytics tag immediately following the head tag.

Make sure you keep other JavaScript files at the end of the page, unless they are specifically needed at the top.

Minify and combine CSS, JS and HTML for additional speed boosts. There is actually a very easy way to do this by modifying your http.d file if you use Apache.

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