# 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.

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

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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**
>
> 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 **Speed Test** card.
>
> *Shortcut: open `wp-admin/admin.php?page=xspeed#/insights/score` directly.*
>
> ✅ This panel is part of **xSpeed Cache (Free)**.

![The Speed Test panel and its tabs](https://xspeedcache.com/_astro/speedtest-tabs.DCHlUv8q.png)

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## 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](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/scan/) |
| **Speed test** | GTmetrix or PageSpeed Insights audits, with history and settings | Free | [How to run a speed test](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/external-score/) |

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.

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## 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](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/scan/) |
| Get the score Google actually ranks on | [Speed test](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/external-score/) |
| See whether last week's change helped | [Speed test](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/external-score/)'s run history |
| Switch provider, or add an API key | The settings under [Speed test](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/external-score/) |

**Start with [xSpeed Scan](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/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](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/external-score/) 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](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/scan/) before running one on a client site.

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## Related

- [How to check your site health](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/health/)
- [How to enable Page Cache](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/page-cache/)
- [How to optimize CSS and JavaScript](https://xspeedcache.com/docs/css-and-javascript/)