Google releases Mobile Scorecard & Impact Calculator tools to illustrate importance of mobile page speed

Google has been focused on getting marketers and site owners to focus on improving mobile site experiences for many years now. On Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the search giant announced the release of two new mobile benchmarking resources: new Mobile Scorecard and conversion Impact Calculator.

Both tools are aimed at giving marketers clear visuals to get buy-in from stakeholders for mobile site speed investments.

The Mobile Scorecard taps Chrome User Experience Report data to compare speed of several sites on mobile. That’s the same database of latency data from Chrome users that Google started using in its PageSpeed Insights Tool in January. Google says the Mobile Scorecard can report on thousands of sites from 12 countries.

As a guideline, Google recommends a site loads and becomes usable within five seconds on mid-range mobile devices with 3G connections and within three seconds on 4G connections.

To put the Mobile Scorecard data into monetary perspective for stakeholders, the new Impact Calculator is designed to show just how much conversion revenue a site is missing out on with slow loading speed.

The conversion Impact Calculator is based on data from The State of Online Retail Performance report from April 2017 that showed each second of delay in page load on a retail site can hurt conversions by up to 20 percent. The calculator shows how a change in page load can drive revenue up or down after marketers put in their average monthly visitors, average order value and conversion rate. Google created a similar tool for publishers called DoubleClick Publisher Revenue Calculator.

The Mobile Scorecard and the Impact Calculator can be both be accessed here.

[Apeared on Search Engine Land.]

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