Speed Care app, in development
Know when your site got slower.
Sites rarely get slow all at once. They get slow the way a room gets untidy: one plugin, one script, one heavy image at a time. Speed Care reads Google's real-visitor figures for the pages that earn you money, every day, and tells you in plain words which one got slower and when.
Speed Careexample-clinic.com
Week of 5 Oct, preview
- Good
Home
3 in 4 visits see it in under 2 seconds.
- Over the line
Book an appointment
Slower on phones since about 1 Sep.
- Good
Services
Steady for 12 weeks.
- Watch
Prices
Jumps a little while loading on phones.
- Good
Contact
No change this week.
Book an appointment, main content
last 12 weeks
Over Google's line since 21 Sep
The booking form now takes 2.9 s to appear for 3 in 4 phone visits.
It started getting slower around 1 Sep. Check what changed on that page then: a new script or widget, a large image, a plugin or theme update. Send this to my developer
Preview of the app in development. Values are illustrative.
Built for people who don't read charts
Green, amber or red. Then where to look.
Traffic lights
Every key page, one colour
No noisy charts on the first screen. You know at a glance where to look.
Plain language
Sentences, not acronyms
“3 in 4 visits see your page in under 2 seconds” instead of a metric name you have to look up.
The day it started
Know where to look
Google's figure covers 28 days, so a slowdown shows as a steady climb. We read it every day and work back to the week it began.
Google's line
No arguing about green
Every page is measured against Google's own threshold for each measure, the same one Search Console uses, so a slow creep gets caught early.
Quiet alerts
Only when it's real
One bad afternoon doesn't move a 28-day figure. You hear about it when a page crosses the line, or is heading there.
For your developer
A note you can forward
Each alert comes with a message to send on: what got slower, on which devices, since when, and what usually causes it.
Weekly health report. Monday morning, one email: what got better, what got worse, and what to keep an eye on.
Want the why? Speed Care tells you when a page got slower. To see what is slowing it down today, run the free check on it.
Questions people ask
Before you sign up.
Want a number to watch today? The free check shows how fast a page is for visitors and how much of it AI assistants can read. No signup.
Run the free checkHow is this different from uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring tells you whether your site answers at all. Speed Care watches how quickly your key pages show their content to real visitors, using Google's own figures. A site can be up all day and still take too long to show its booking form. The two do different jobs, and plenty of uptime tools are free, so keep yours.
Doesn't Google Search Console already tell me when my site is slow?
It uses the same data: its Core Web Vitals report is built from real Chrome visits over the previous 28 days. The difference is who does the looking. Search Console groups pages together and waits for you to open it. Speed Care reads the figures for each of your key pages every day, emails you when one crosses Google's line or is heading there, and works back to the week the slowdown began. A change still takes days to show, because the figure covers 28 days, but it won't sit unnoticed for a month. Our lab note on speed monitoring explains the delay.
When does the app launch, and what will it cost?
It is in development, and we have not set a launch date. It will cost $20 per month, or $200 a year, for up to 5 sites, with a 7-day free trial and no card to start. The waiting list gets launch updates only.
Does Speed Care fix the problems it finds?
No. It is monitoring only. Each alert says what got slower, since when, and what usually causes it, in words you can forward to your developer. If you would rather we did the fixing, that is the Speed fix sprint, or the WordPress speed fix for WordPress sites, priced separately.
Does it work with WordPress, Shopify, Wix or Squarespace?
Yes. The figures come from real Chrome visits to your site, so it makes no difference what the site is built with. The one limit is traffic: Google only publishes figures for sites with enough visitors, and the app tells you when you add a site that doesn't have them yet.
What can I do before it opens?
Get a baseline. Run our free check on your three most important pages and keep the results. Next time something changes on the site, run it again and compare. You cannot spot a slowdown without knowing where you started.
Early access
Join the waiting list.
Be first in when it opens. Launch updates only, no newsletter.
The price at launch
$20 per month, or $200 a year
- Up to 5 sites and the pages that earn money on each
- Daily figures from Google's real visitors, on phones and desktops
- An email only when a page crosses Google's line, or is about to
- A monthly plain-language report, and notes you can forward to your developer
- A 7-day free trial with no card, then $20 a month or $200 a year