This is a step by step tutorial on how to use GTMetrix.com Website.

1. GTMetrix.com
Website
Tutorial

2. What is
GTMetrix.com?

3. GTMetrix.com
is a free tool
that analyzes

4. your pages’
speed
performance.

5. Using Page
Speed and
YSlow,

6. GTMetrix
generates
scores for

7. your pages
and offers
actionable

8. recommendations on how
to fix them.

9. Everybody
deserves a
fast web

10. experience.
GTMetrix can
help you

11. develop a
faster, more
efficient and

12. all around
improved
website

13. experience
for your
users.

14. GTMetrix is
developed by
the good

15. Folks at
Gossamer
Threads,

16. a Vancouverbased
company

17. with over
19 years
experience

18. in web
technology.

19. “The web
should be fast.”
– Google, Inc.

20. Let’s
get
started!

21. Locate your
favorite
browser.

22. In our
example, it’s
Google Chrome

23. Click icon

24. In address bar,
type: www.
gtmetrix.com

26. Press Enter

27. Here’s the
home page of
GTMetrix.com

29. For better
experience of
using the site,

30. let’s sign
up for an
account.

31. Click Sign Up

32. A window
will appear,
just fill it out

33. for needed
information:
First name,

34. Last name,
Email,
Password,

35. Confirm your
Password
and click

36. Create
Account
button.

37. Click

38. If creating
an account is
successful,

39. user will be
redirected to
dashboard:

41. Put address
of desired
site that you

42. want to
analyze then
click Go button.

44. Click

45. The outcome
is like this:

47. Summary
showed that
the website

48. address
which has
been

49. analyzed
resulted in
Grade B.

51. There are
more options to
choose from.

53. Upon getting
scores, start
to optimize

54. your site. Let’s
check on the
Breakdown.

56. There’s a lot of
recommendations in the

57. list that will
definitely
help you

58. determine
what factors
cause your

59. site to be
fast or slow
in loading.

61. Grade, Type
and Priority
are also

62. included
in this part.

67. Let’s discuss
YSlow tab
this time.

69. YSlow tab
recommends
things that

70. make your site
slow in loading.
Like on the

71. previous tab,
Grade, Type
and Priority

72. are also
included
in this part.

73. The third tab
is about
Timeline.

75. This shows the
Waterfall of
your site.

76. The Waterfall
Graph displays
the loading

77. behaviour
of your site.
It can be

78. used to
discover
simple issues

79. or more
complex
issues.

80. User can view
the larger
version of it,

81. just click
the following
link:

82. Click

83. And for the
last tab which
is History,

84. it is not
applicable in
our example.

85. To keep a
record of
report,

86. just download
the file in
PDF form.

88. One of the
benefits of
registered

89. user is to
have access
to this:

91. GTMetrix’
recommendations are

92. are meant to
be generic,
best practices

93. but not everything is
required to

94. be applied
in your
site.

95. Congratulations!
You’ve just
learned

96. how to use
GTMetrix.com
and start

97. to optimize
your site
and work

98. with various
organizations
to make

99. intelligent
web strategy
and

100. infrastructure
decisions.