PageSpeed Insights MCP Server

MCP server for Google PageSpeed Insights API that enables web page performance analysis directly through Claude.

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⚡ Quick Start (Copy & Paste)

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagespeed-insights": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-p",
        "pino-pretty",
        "-p",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Codex / OpenAI

Add to your configuration (TOML):

[mcp_servers.pagespeed-insights]
command = "npx"
args = [
  "-y",
  "-p",
  "pino-pretty",
  "-p",
  "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
  "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
]
env = { GOOGLE_API_KEY = "your-google-api-key-here" }

Note: The pino-pretty package is required for proper log formatting. The above configurations ensure it is installed automatically via npx.

📚 Documentation

We have comprehensive documentation available online.

👉 View Full Documentation Site

• 🚀 Getting Started
• 🛠️ Tools Reference
• 🏗️ Architecture

You can also view the raw markdown files in the docs/ directory or run mkdocs serve locally.

✨ Features

Core Features

• 🚀 Performance Analysis of web pages using Google PageSpeed Insights
• 📱 Multi-platform Support: mobile and desktop devices
• 🔍 Detailed Lighthouse Reports with comprehensive metrics
• 📊 Simplified Reports with key performance indicators
• 🎯 Smart Recommendations with priority scoring and actionable fixes
• 💾 Intelligent Caching to reduce API calls and improve performance
• 🌍 Localization - support for multiple languages
• ⚡ Quick Installation - one command setup
• 🐳 Docker Support for containerized deployment

Advanced Analysis Tools (New!)

• 📸 Visual Analysis - Screenshots, filmstrip, and full-page captures
• 🎯 Element-Level Debugging - Find specific DOM elements causing issues
• 🌐 Network Waterfall - Detailed request timing and resource loading
• ⚡ JavaScript Profiling - Execution breakdown and unused code detection
• 🖼️ Image Optimization - Specific image issues with exact savings
• 🚫 Render-Blocking Analysis - Critical request chains and dependencies
• 🔌 Third-Party Impact - Script impact grouped by provider
• 📊 Full Audits - Complete Lighthouse audits for all categories

🚀 Quick Installation

Option 1: Automatic Installation (Recommended)

# Set environment variable
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruslanlap/pagespeed-insights-mcp/master/install.sh | bash

Option 2: Via npm or GitHub Packages

From npm (Public Registry)

# Global installation from npm
npm install -g pagespeed-insights-mcp

# Or use without installation
npx pagespeed-insights-mcp

# Specific version
npm install -g [email protected]

From GitHub Packages

# First configure authentication (see GITHUB_PACKAGES.md for details)
# Then install globally
npm install -g @ruslanlap/pagespeed-insights-mcp

# Or specific version
npm install -g @ruslanlap/[email protected]

Note: This package is available on both npm and GitHub Packages.

• For npm: Use npm install pagespeed-insights-mcp
• For GitHub Packages: Use npm install @ruslanlap/pagespeed-insights-mcp (requires GitHub authentication)

For detailed instructions on installing from GitHub Packages, see GITHUB_PACKAGES.md or visit the GitHub Packages page

🔧 Configuration

The MCP server requires a Google API key to access the PageSpeed Insights API.

# Set environment variable
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key

# Windows
$env:GOOGLE_API_KEY="your-google-api-key"

# Or pass directly when running
GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key npx pagespeed-insights-mcp

📝 MCP Configuration Examples

For Claude Desktop (with pino-pretty logging):

"pagespeed-insights": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "-p",
    "pino-pretty",
    "-p",
    "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
    "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
  ],
  "env": {
    "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
  }
}

For Codex (with pino-pretty logging):

[mcp_servers.pagespeed-insights]
command = "npx"
args = [
  "-y",
  "-p",
  "pino-pretty",
  "-p",
  "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
  "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
]
env = { GOOGLE_API_KEY = "your-google-api-key-here" }

Note: These examples include pino-pretty for better log formatting. For production use without pretty logs, see the Logging section below.

Claude Desktop Configuration

To use this MCP server with Claude Desktop, add the following to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagespeed-insights": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-p",
        "pino-pretty",
        "-p",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Example configuration files are available in the examples directory.

Option 3: Docker

docker build -t pagespeed-insights-mcp .
docker run -e GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-key pagespeed-insights-mcp

🔑 Getting Google API Key

1. Go to Google Cloud Console
2. Create a new project or select an existing one
3. Enable PageSpeed Insights API:
   • Navigate to "APIs & Services" → "Library"
   • Search for "PageSpeed Insights API" and enable it
4. Create an API key:
   • Go to "APIs & Services" → "Credentials"
   • Click "Create Credentials" → "API Key"
   • Copy the generated key

⚙️ Claude Desktop Configuration

Automatic Configuration

If you used the install.sh script, the configuration was created automatically.

Manual Configuration

Add the configuration to your Claude Desktop file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Linux: ~/.config/claude/claude_desktop_config.json

For npm installation and global installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagespeed-insights": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-p",
        "pino-pretty",
        "-p",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

For GitHub Packages installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagespeed-insights": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "-p",
        "pino-pretty",
        "-p",
        "@ruslanlap/pagespeed-insights-mcp",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Docker:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagespeed-insights": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "--rm", "-i",
        "--env", "GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key-here",
        "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop after configuration!

💻 Usage

After configuration, simply ask Claude any of these commands:

🔍 Full page analysis

Analyze the performance of https://example.com

📱 Mobile device analysis

Analyze https://example.com for mobile devices with all categories

⚡ Quick performance overview

Get a quick performance report for https://example.com

🖥️ Desktop analysis

Analyze https://example.com performance for desktop devices

🌐 Multi-category analysis

Perform a full audit of https://example.com including SEO, accessibility, and best practices

🎯 Smart performance recommendations

Get smart recommendations for improving https://example.com performance

💾 Cache management

Clear the cache to get fresh data for all subsequent requests

📸 Visual analysis

Get visual analysis for https://example.com showing screenshots and loading timeline

🎯 Element-level debugging

Show me which specific elements are causing performance issues on https://example.com

🌐 Network waterfall analysis

Analyze the network requests and resource loading for https://example.com

⚡ JavaScript performance

Get JavaScript execution breakdown for https://example.com

🖼️ Image optimization opportunities

Show me which images need optimization on https://example.com

🚫 Render-blocking resources

Find render-blocking resources on https://example.com

🔌 Third-party script impact

Analyze third-party script impact on https://example.com performance

📊 Full Lighthouse audit

Run a full audit including accessibility, SEO, and best practices for https://example.com

Available Tools

analyze_page_speed

Complete page analysis with all Lighthouse metrics.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")
• category: array of categories ["performance", "accessibility", "best-practices", "seo", "pwa"]
• locale: locale for results (default: "en")

get_performance_summary

Simplified report with key performance metrics.

get_recommendations

Generate smart performance recommendations with priority scoring and actionable fixes.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")
• category: array of categories to analyze (default: ["performance", "accessibility", "best-practices", "seo"])
• locale: locale for results (default: "en")

clear_cache

Clear the internal cache to force fresh API requests for all subsequent analyses.

get_visual_analysis

Get screenshots and visual timeline showing how the page loads.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• Final screenshot of the loaded page
• Filmstrip showing page load progression
• Full-page screenshot with DOM node mapping

get_element_analysis

Get specific DOM elements causing performance issues.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) element details
• CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) causing elements
• Lazy-loaded LCP warnings

get_network_analysis

Get detailed network waterfall showing all requests with timing and size.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• All network requests with timing data
• Resource breakdown by type
• Total transfer size and request count
• Network RTT and server latency

get_javascript_analysis

Get JavaScript execution breakdown showing performance impact.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• JavaScript bootup time by script
• Main thread work breakdown
• Unused JavaScript analysis
• Duplicated JavaScript modules

get_image_optimization_details

Get specific images needing optimization with exact savings potential.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• Improperly sized images
• Offscreen images (lazy-loading candidates)
• Unoptimized images
• Modern format recommendations (WebP/AVIF)

get_render_blocking_details

Get render-blocking resources and critical request chains.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript files
• Critical request chains showing dependencies
• Total blocking time

get_third_party_impact

Get third-party script impact analysis grouped by entity.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Returns:

• Impact by provider (Google, Facebook, etc.)
• Transfer size and blocking time per provider
• Recommended facade replacements

get_full_audit

Get comprehensive audit results for all Lighthouse categories.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")
• categories: array of categories to audit (default: ["performance", "accessibility", "best-practices", "seo"])

Returns:

• Scores for all categories
• Detailed Core Web Vitals and metrics
• Key failing audits for each category
• Framework-specific advice (if applicable)

Example

answer example from Claude Desktop with pagespeed-insights-mcp 🔥🔥🔥

Complete Ratings for example.com

Now I have the full analysis! Here are all the ratings:

📊 Main Lighthouse Scores

| Category | Score | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Performance | 67/100 | 🟡 Needs Improvement | | Accessibility | 92/100 | 🟢 Good | | Best Practices | 96/100 | 🟢 Excellent | | SEO | 100/100 | 🟢 Perfect |

⚡ Detailed Performance Metrics

| Metric | Value | Score | | --- | --- | --- | | First Contentful Paint | 1.2s | 🟢 Excellent (98/100) | | Largest Contentful Paint | 2.4s | 🟡 Needs Improvement (75/100) | | Speed Index | 4.8s | 🟡 Needs Improvement (67/100) | | Total Blocking Time | 60ms | 🟢 Good (94/100) | | Cumulative Layout Shift | 0 | 🟢 Perfect (100/100) |

♿ Detailed Accessibility Scores (92/100)

| Audit | Score | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | Label Content Name Mismatch | 🔴 0/1 | 2 errors with aria-label | | Unsized Images | 🟡 0.5/1 | 1 image without dimensions | | Color Contrast | 🟢 1/1 | Sufficient contrast | | Button Names | 🟢 1/1 | Accessible button names | | Link Names | 🟢 1/1 | Accessible link names | | ARIA Roles | 🟢 1/1 | Correct ARIA roles | | HTML Lang | 🟢 1/1 | Valid lang attribute | | Meta Viewport | 🟢 1/1 | Proper viewport | | Image Alt Text | 🟢 1/1 | Correct alt attributes | | List Items | 🟢 1/1 | Proper list structure |

🏆 Detailed Best Practices Scores (96/100)

| Audit | Score | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Uses HTTPS | 🟢 ✓ | HTTPS is used | | HTTP Status Code | 🟢 1/1 | Correct 200 status | | No Console Errors | 🟢 1/1 | No console errors | | Valid Source Maps | 🟢 1/1 | Valid source maps | | No Notification Requests | 🟢 1/1 | No notification requests | | Charset Declaration | 🟢 1/1 | Correct encoding | | No Inspector Issues | 🟢 1/1 | No DevTools issues |

🔍 Detailed SEO Scores (100/100)

| Audit | Score | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Meta Viewport | 🟢 1/1 | Mobile optimized | | Document Title | 🟢 1/1 | Title present | | Meta Description | 🟢 1/1 | Description present | | HTTP Status Code | 🟢 1/1 | Successful status | | Link Text | 🟢 1/1 | Descriptive link texts | | Crawlability | 🟢 1/1 | Available for indexing | | HTML Lang | 🟢 1/1 | Valid document language | | Hreflang | 🟢 1/1 | Correct hreflang attributes |

🔧 Main Performance Issues

| Issue | Affects | Potential Savings | | --- | --- | --- | | Improperly sized images | LCP, FCP | 1,069 KB, 170ms | | Inefficient caching | Overall speed | 1,445 KB | | Forced Reflows | Smoothness | 46.8ms | | JavaScript execution time | TBT | 338ms |

📈 Network Metrics

| Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | Server Response Time | 120ms (🟢 Good) | | Network RTT | Minimal | | Main Thread Work | 0.9s | | DOM Size | 453 elements (optimal) |

💡 Priority Recommendations

1. 🔴 High Priority:
   • Optimize image sizes (save 1+ MB)
   • Fix aria-label mismatches for accessibility
2. 🟡 Medium Priority:
   • Improve caching policy (TTL >600s)
   • Add width/height attributes for images
3. 🟢 Low Priority:
   • Optimize forced reflows in JavaScript

🎯 Summary

Overall Rating: Good with potential for improvement

• SEO: Perfect (100/100) 🏆
• Best Practices: Excellent (96/100) 🏆
• Accessibility: Good (92/100) ✅
• Performance: Needs attention (67/100) ⚠️

The site has excellent SEO optimization and follows best practices, but needs image optimization to improve performance.

Parameters:

• url (required): URL of the page to analyze
• strategy: "mobile" or "desktop" (default: "mobile")

Development

For better log formatting during development, it is recommended to install pino-pretty globally:

npm install -g pino-pretty

# Development mode
npm run dev

# Build project
npm run build

# Run built server
npm start

Logging / pino-pretty in MCP environments

This MCP server uses pino for logging and enables the pino-pretty transport when NODE_ENV=development.

• If you just want it to work with minimal setup (Claude, Codex, etc.), set:

NODE_ENV=production GOOGLE_API_KEY=your-google-api-key npx pagespeed-insights-mcp

or in your MCP config:

"pagespeed-insights": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": ["pagespeed-insights-mcp"],
  "env": {
    "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here",
    "NODE_ENV": "production"
  }
}

• If you want pretty logs in development via npx, you can have npx install pino-pretty alongside the server:

"pagespeed-insights": {
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "-p",
    "pino-pretty",
    "-p",
    "pagespeed-insights-mcp",
    "pagespeed-insights-mcp"
  ],
  "env": {
    "GOOGLE_API_KEY": "your-google-api-key-here"
  }
}

Troubleshooting

"Google API key not provided"

Ensure the GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable is set in your Claude Desktop configuration.

"PageSpeed Insights API error: 403"

Check if PageSpeed Insights API is enabled in your Google Cloud project.

"Invalid URL"

Ensure the URL includes the protocol (http:// or https://).

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to @engmsaleh (Mohamed Saleh Zaied) for his significant contribution to the development of this project.

License

MIT

Support

For bug reports or feature requests, please create an issue in the repository.