How to track your speed tests
Two ways to measure this site from one panel — a full graded site scan, and a provider audit with its history and settings.
Measuring a site means two different questions: how is it configured? and what score does it get? Speed Test answers both from one panel — a full graded scan of the site, and a provider audit whose history you can compare run against run, with its settings directly underneath.
Where to find it
- In your WordPress admin, click xSpeed Cache in the left menu.
- In the xSpeed Cache sidebar, open the Health & insights group.
- Click the Speed Test card.
Shortcut: open
wp-admin/admin.php?page=xspeed#/insights/scoredirectly.✅ This panel is part of xSpeed Cache (Free).
Tabs on this panel
| Tab | Feature | Tier | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| xSpeed Scan | A full graded site report with ranked fixes | Free | How to run a full site scan |
| Speed test | GTmetrix or PageSpeed Insights audits, with history and settings | Free | How to run a speed test |
Each tab has its own address, so you can link straight to one:
| Tab | URL |
|---|---|
| xSpeed Scan | #/insights/score/scan |
| Speed test | #/insights/score/test |
The panel used to have a third Settings tab. Its settings now sit beneath the test they configure, and an older #/insights/score/settings link opens the Speed test tab.
Which one should you use?
| If you want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Know whether the site is set up well, and what to fix first | xSpeed Scan |
| Get the score Google actually ranks on | Speed test |
| See whether last week’s change helped | Speed test’s run history |
| Switch provider, or add an API key | The settings under Speed test |
Start with xSpeed Scan. It grades roughly twenty checks across four weighted areas and hands you a ranked list of fixes with the points each recovers — which is more actionable than a single number. Then use Speed test to track the headline score over time as you work through that list.
💡 The two scores are not the same scale and are not meant to match. A Lighthouse result is one check inside the scan, worth 18 of its 100 points. The panel shows it as a labelled measurement rather than a score precisely so the two aren’t read as comparable.
⚠️ Scan reports are published publicly by default, listed under your domain at xspeedcache.com. Read How to run a full site scan before running one on a client site.