Last updated on June 26th, 2022 at 11:41 am
Google officially announced that all websites and pages that donāt have enough real-world performance data will receive an āUnavailableā speed result.
This means that data shown in PageSpeed Insights is no longer real-time. Instead, individual pages and web sites will get weekly performance metrics and will reflect the user experience for the last 30 days.
However, Google assures that their suggestions for optimizations are based on a shorter period of time. And every change towards their suggested optimizations will be reflected within minutes on PageSpeed Insights.
Are you wondering why youāre not seeing any speed test data for your pages? Hereās what Google says about your unavailable page speed:
PSI uses data from the Chrome User Experience Report, which provides speed data for popular URLs that are known by Google’s web crawlers. If the speed data for the queried URL is not available in the CrUX dataset, we recommend using Lighthouse to run a synthetic performance audit to estimate page speed, and investigate page optimization recommendations provided by PSI and Lighthouse.
But if youāre still not sure about the new speed standards? Just have a look at the following PageSpeed Insight test results for some of the popular sites out there. These sites already have some real-world performance data gathered from Google. So far, looks like results range from Poor to Average and Fast.
PageSpeed Insights speed test of google.com:
PageSpeed Insights speed test of cnn.com:
PageSpeed Insights speed test of godaddy.com:
PageSpeed Insights speed test of wpengine.com:
PageSpeed Insights speed test of bluehost.com:
PageSpeed Insights speed test of theverge.com:
So, in other words, if your page speed score shows as Unavailable, you may need to run a synthethic performance audit with Lighthouse. Or just wait until your site hopefully gets enough data from the Chrome user experience report.
