Aftermath Web design

Free tool

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What is your site actually costing you?

Paste the address. About twenty seconds later you get the same numbers Google uses, in plain language, with the three fixes worth doing first.

Public pages only. The result is cached for a day, then deleted.

This tool needs JavaScript, because the measurement runs in your browser rather than on this server. That is deliberate: a run takes up to thirty seconds and holding a server worker open for that long is how a shared host falls over. Send the address with the quote form and you will get the numbers back by email instead.

01 / What it measures

Method

Five things, and nothing invented.

The measurement is Google PageSpeed Insights, running Lighthouse from Google’s own infrastructure against a simulated mid-range phone on a slow connection. Every number below comes straight out of it. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or made worse to sell you something.

Largest contentful paint
How long somebody waits before the main thing on the page appears. Google treats anything over 2.5 seconds as a problem, and visitors treated it as a problem long before Google did.
Cumulative layout shift
How much the page moves around while it loads. This is the one that makes people tap the wrong thing.
Interaction to next paint
How quickly the page answers a tap. Only shows a number if enough real visitors have been measured on your site.
Page weight
How many kilobytes a visitor has to download. Almost always dominated by images that were never resized.
The specific fixes
What is actually costing you the time, taken from the same measurement, with the estimated saving on each.
02 / Questions that come up

FAQ

Is this really free?

Yes, and there is no email gate on the score. The number is the part that earns your trust, so putting it behind a form would defeat the point. The form is at the end, for people who want the fix plan as well.

What does it actually run?

Google PageSpeed Insights, which runs Lighthouse against your site from Google's own infrastructure. It is the same engine behind the Core Web Vitals report in Search Console. Nothing here is a proprietary score.

Do you keep my URL?

The result is cached for 24 hours so a second look is instant, then it is deleted. Beyond that only anonymous aggregates are kept: how many audits ran and the distribution of scores. No URL, no identity, nothing joined to anything.

Why is my score different from last time?

Lighthouse runs on shared infrastructure and simulates a mid-range phone on a slow connection. Two runs minutes apart can differ by several points. Treat a single score as a range, and treat a change of twenty as real.

My site scores badly. Is it broken?

Usually not broken, just heavy. The most common cause by a distance is images served at full resolution to phones. That is a fixable afternoon, not a rebuild.

03 / After the number

Next

A number is not a plan.

Knowing the score is the easy half. The useful half is knowing which fix is worth doing, which one is a morning, and which one means the site needs rebuilding rather than patching. That is the conversation the quote form starts.

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