Page Speed Insights in BearAudit: Desktop and Mobile Scores

BearAudit can run Google PageSpeed Insights on a URL and show you performance scores, Core Web Vitals, and suggestions—for both desktop and mobile. Useful to spot slow pages during an audit and to track speed alongside SEO fixes.

Where you see it

• Property dashboard — The dashboard can show a PageSpeed card for the property’s root URL. Run once to see scores; use “Refresh” to force a new run (PageSpeed results may be cached).
• Page viewer — When you open a single crawled page, you can run PageSpeed on that page’s URL. Handy for high-value URLs (e.g. homepage, key landing pages) that you’re fixing.

So you get speed data in the same place as your crawl and verification data—no need to leave the app or copy URLs into an external tool.

What you get

• Performance score — 0–100 for desktop and mobile. BearAudit displays the score and uses colour (e.g. green / amber / red) so you can see at a glance if the page is in good shape.
• Core Web Vitals — LCP (Largest Contentful Paint), FID (First Input Delay), CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) where available. These matter for both UX and SEO (e.g. Google’s page experience signals).
• Opportunities and diagnostics — PageSpeed’s suggestions (e.g. compress images, reduce JS, improve server response time) are available in the result. Use them to prioritise what to fix next.

Switching between Desktop and Mobile lets you compare; often mobile scores are lower and more important to improve first.

How it works

BearAudit calls the PageSpeed Insights API (or equivalent) with the URL you choose. The request goes from your machine (or the environment where BearAudit runs). Results can be cached by the service; use Refresh when you want a new measurement (e.g. after changing hosting or assets). No separate API key is required for basic PageSpeed usage in BearAudit.

When to use it

• During an audit — After a crawl, run PageSpeed on the homepage and a few critical URLs. Combine with HTTP response time and compression checks for a full picture of speed.
• Before/after fixes — Run once, make changes (e.g. enable Brotli, fix redirects), then run again to see if scores and Core Web Vitals improve.
• Reporting — Include desktop and mobile scores in client or internal reports next to crawl and verification metrics.

Page Speed in BearAudit is a convenience layer on top of PageSpeed Insights: same data, same metrics, but integrated so you can keep SEO and performance in one workflow.

For a short definition, see What are Core Web Vitals? in our glossary.