Should You Trust Website Speed Test Scores or Ignore Them? (2025/621)

Website speed scores can feel like a tech report card — but do they really matter?

In this episode, Charly unpacks what those numbers from Google PageSpeed, GTMetrix, and others actually mean, and why obsessing over them might not be worth your time.

📌 Here’s what you’ll learn:

✅ What speed test tools measure (and what they don’t)

✅ Why results vary wildly between tools and locations

✅ The difference between synthetic scores and real user experience

✅ How caching and CDNs skew speed results

✅ Why chasing a perfect score can be a waste of time

🛡️ Charly also shares a real client story where speed optimization delivered minimal metric gains but huge improvements in user satisfaction.

🔗 Use speed test tools for guidance, not gospel. Focus on user happiness, not just numbers.

🔗Join my locals community and strike up a conversation about the topic

About the Author Charly Leetham

Charly Leetham has been in technology for over 40 years - from earning her amateur radio license at 13 to founding and running Ask Charly Leetham, a digital services business serving small businesses worldwide. After losing $1 million in a franchise failure, she rebuilt from scratch and has kept her business running for nearly two decades through skill, systems, and relentless practicality.

She hosts the podcast Rise and Shine - Your Business Tech Boost with Charly Leetham and speaks about what it actually takes to build businesses that work and last - not just look good on paper.

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