PageSpeedyPlus

Automated mass website observation - or a tool to see how fast council websites are.

Pagespeedy is a series of scripts to run the Google PageSpeed Inights against a list of websites - it is used by us to do the Council Page Speedyindex thing

http://jumoo.uk/speedy/sites.php

Installation

PageSpeedyPlus comes in two parts

Part One - The Analyser The Python Scripts, do background runs against websites.

You will need.

1. A List of sites you want to run it against (see sites.txt)
2. To Initialize the DB
3. an installation of AChecker to to the Accessibility Checks. (or you can turn them off in the code)
4. Some time to run it (it takes about an hour on 400 sites)

Setup:

1. Initialize your DB (run SpeedyPlusInit.py )
2. You need 3rd Party APIs
   1. A Google Page Speed API Key goes in pagespeed.config.json (see pagespeedy.config.sample.json)
   2. If you run AChecker - achecker.config.json needs keys too
3. Decide what month your going to do
   1. speedyplus.py -l will list what months you can run against
   2. speedyplus.py -m <id> will run the process against a month
   3. at the end the month is marked as processed and can't be ran again (without some sqlite hackery)

By default pagespeedy will do:

• a Google PageInsights check,
• a Wappalizer check
• an Accessiblity check

To turn off one of these just comment the two lines out in speedyplus.py.

Part 2 is the site

The second part is the website (in website folder) - it's a PHP site.

to run the site you need to copy a few things from your analyser

1. Copy the speedyplus.db to the root of your site
2. Copy/Move the results folder to the site

The results folder can get quite large that's why we move it (in our case we ftp it up to our site).

Notes

1. The website is intended to be a read only copy of everything, So set it so if you put it on a web server.
2. You will need to poke around in the SQL at some point. just run Sqlite3 speedyplus.db in the directory.
3. This is very rough , things aren't separated properly in the code (it sort of grew) - feel free to contribute improve and feedback.