Google PageSpeed Insights vs. Rank Ranger

It should be an essential tool for all website owners - everyone should care about page loading time from the CEO down to the junior web developer. Page speed is a factor that hugely affects visitor satisfaction, and Google takes it seriously by offering PageSpeed Insights. If you work in a larger organisation and focus on one particular part of website development and maintenance, such as a content writer, then this tool won't be as useful. It's intended for users with development or marketing-related responsibility

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Rank Ranger is great for those who are new to SEO. However, people should be aware that they may fall behind to competitors using more powerful software such as Ahrefs and Semrush. [In my opinion] we are very unpleased with the dashboards and quality of data and tracking and are in the process of switching over.

• Straight to the point
• Valuable feedback on performance
• Provide optimized assets (CSS, JS and images)

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• It is a simple and easy to understand interface great for keyword reporting
• It updates ranking data much more quickly than our other tool enabling us to quickly assess performance in the short term
• Being able to track rankings by city and zip code makes reporting out for local business really accurate

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• PDF reports
• Sending to someone else
• Setup monthly report running would be cool

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• User Interface
• Accuracy of data
• features and useful tools

It's a free, easy to use tool

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There is no support from Google for the tool.

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I've never used any software beyond PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse (the source of the PAgeSpeed Insights software.) I've used similar programs like Hummingbird for WordPress that pulls the same data using the same engine, but its really the only game in town as far as I'm concerned.

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While both are billed as keyword performance tools. Conductor is a much more robust tool and not totally necessary for lower-maintenance websites. Rank Ranger is perfect for our clients that simply need keyword tracking and reporting on a monthly basis whereas we utilize Conductor for in-depth content recommendations, on-page and competitor analyses.

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• Positive! It's easier to communicate with our clients where they are today with site speed and the steps needed to improve.

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• Easy to show clients how their an SEO campaign is trending.
• Transparency of rankings.
• Clean and simple to show and explain.

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