# How to check your site health

> One page that tells you whether caching is actually working — hit ratio, server diagnostics, and a rule-based list of the changes most likely to help.

- Category: Health & insights
- Canonical: https://xspeedcache.com/docs/health/

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Every other panel in xSpeed changes something. **Health** is where you find out whether any of it worked. It reports your real hit ratio, checks the plumbing caching depends on, and produces a ranked list of what to fix next.

> **Where to find it**
>
> 1. In your WordPress admin, click **xSpeed Cache** in the left menu.
> 2. In the xSpeed Cache sidebar, open the **Health & insights** group.
> 3. Click the **Health** card.
>
> *Shortcut: open `wp-admin/admin.php?page=xspeed#/insights/health` directly.*
>
> ✅ This panel is part of **xSpeed Cache (Free)**.

![The Health panel header](https://xspeedcache.com/_astro/health-hero.COe2vw4x.png)

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## Tabs on this panel

| Tab | Feature | Tier | Guide |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Overview** | Hit ratio, server diagnostics, config snippets | Free | [How to read your cache diagnostics](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/cache-diagnostics/) |
| **Visitors** | Real-user monitoring from actual page loads | ⭐ Pro | [How to measure real visitor speed](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/visitors/) |
| **PageSpeed** | Google PageSpeed Insights audits | ⭐ Pro | [How to run a PageSpeed audit](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/pagespeed/) |

Each tab has its own address, so you can link straight to one:

| Tab | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Overview | `#/insights/health` |
| Visitors | `#/insights/health/visitors` |
| PageSpeed | `#/insights/health/pagespeed` |

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## The summary bar

![The health summary statistics](https://xspeedcache.com/_astro/health-stats.ETQIXTI3.png)

1. **Summary** — five numbers covering the state of your cache.

Above the tabs, five figures summarise everything — and unlike the rest of the panel they **stay put when you switch tabs**, so the headline numbers are visible whichever view you're in:

| Metric | What it tells you |
| --- | --- |
| **Hit ratio** | Share of requests served from cache. The headline number. |
| **Cache coverage** | How many of xSpeed's cache features are switched on. |
| **Cached pages** | How many pages currently have a saved copy. |
| **Cache size** | Disk space those pages occupy. |
| **Requests (24h)** | Total hits plus misses in the last day. |

**Hit ratio and cache coverage answer different questions**, and it's worth not confusing them. Hit ratio is about *outcomes* — are visitors actually being served from cache? Coverage is about *configuration* — how much of the toolkit you've enabled. A site can have 99% hit ratio on 75% coverage, which simply means the features you turned on are working well and there are more available.

> 💡 **What counts as a good hit ratio? 80% or better is healthy for most sites.** Very high figures usually mean steady traffic to a stable set of pages rather than anything you configured especially well — and a low figure on a site with lots of unique, rarely-repeated URLs isn't necessarily a fault either.

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## Which one should you use?

The three tabs measure speed from different vantage points, and they disagree for good reasons.

| | [Overview](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/cache-diagnostics/) | [Visitors](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/visitors/) | [PageSpeed](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/pagespeed/) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Data source** | Your server's own counters | Real visitors' browsers | Google's test lab |
| **Answers** | Is caching working? | How fast is it *for real people*? | What would Google score me? |
| **Needs** | Nothing | The RUM beacon on, plus traffic | A URL, optionally an API key |
| **Tier** | Free | ⭐ Pro | ⭐ Pro |

**Start with [Overview](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/cache-diagnostics/)** — it needs nothing and tells you whether the fundamentals are in place.

**[Visitors](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/visitors/)** is the truest measure of experience, because it records what actually happened on real devices and connections. It needs traffic before it says anything.

**[PageSpeed](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/pagespeed/)** is a lab test from a single machine. Useful as a benchmark and for the specific advice Google gives, but a lab score isn't what your visitors felt.

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## Related

- [How to track your speed tests](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/speedtest/)
- [How to enable Page Cache](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/page-cache/)
- [How to read the activity log](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/logs/)
- [How to clean up your database](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/database/)
- [How to read your dashboard](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/overview/)