payload plugin pagespeed

payload-plugin-pagespeed

A Payload CMS plugin that integrates Google PageSpeed Insights into your project. Use it to analyze pages and view performance metrics directly in your Payload admin ui.

Features

• 🔍 Run PageSpeed Insights checks on demand
• 📊 Store results in a Payload collection
• ⚡ Simple setup with minimal configuration
• 🛠 Works with your existing PayloadCMS project

Demo

payload-plugin-pagespeed-demo.webm

Installation

pnpm add payload-plugin-pagespeed

Getting Started

[!IMPORTANT]
Make sure to get a PageSpeed Insights API key as this plugin requires one to communicate with the PageSpeed API.

Add the plugin to your payload.config.ts:

import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
import { pageSpeedPlugin } from 'payload-plugin-pagespeed'

export default buildConfig({
  // ... your config
  plugins: [
    // ... your other plugins
    pageSpeedPlugin({
      apiKey: process.env.PAGESPEED_API_KEY, // Required
    }),
  ],
})

Now start your Payload app:

pnpm dev

You’ll see a new collection in the admin panel where your PageSpeed Insight reports are stored, by default this is the PageSpeed Insights collection.

Usage

1. Go to the PageSpeed Insights collection in the Payload admin.
2. Create a new entry with a URL.
3. The plugin will fetch results from Google PageSpeed Insights and save them (This may take a while as the PageSpeed Insights API analyzes your page).
4. View metrics such as Performance, Accessibility, SEO, and Best Practices.

Configuration

The plugin accepts the following options:

[!NOTE] In order to successfully work, the user making the request needs to have both read and create access for the PageSpeed Insights collection. In addition, this plugin sets the update access control on the PageSpeed Insights collection to false. An example below shows customizing access controls and other collection configs.

Example plugin configurations

import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
import { pageSpeedPlugin } from 'payload-plugin-pagespeed'

export default buildConfig({
  // ... your config
  plugins: [
    // ... your other plugins
    pageSpeedPlugin({
      apiKey: process.env.PAGESPEED_API_KEY, // Required
      overrideInsightsCollection: (collection) => ({
        ...collection,
        access: {
          ...collection,
          read: () => true, // Anyone can read the insights collection
          create: () => true, // Anyone can create an insights report
        }
        // ... other overrides
      })
    }),
  ],
})

import { s3Storage } from '@payloadcms/storage-s3'
import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
import { pageSpeedPlugin } from 'payload-plugin-pagespeed'

export default buildConfig({
  // ... your config
  plugins: [
    // ... your other plugins
    s3Storage({
      bucket: process.env.S3_BUCKET || '',
      collections: {
        'pagespeed-reports': true,
      },
      config: {
        credentials: {
          accessKeyId: process.env.S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID || '',
          secretAccessKey: process.env.S3_SECRET || '',
        },
        endpoint: process.env.S3_ENDPOINT || '',
        region: process.env.S3_REGION || '',
      },
    })
    pageSpeedPlugin({
      apiKey: process.env.PAGESPEED_API_KEY, // Required
      generateFilePrefix: ({ collection, req }) => { ... } // Save to specific folder in storage
    }),
  ],
})

API Reference

HTTP request

GET <api-route>/<insights-slug>/:id?/report

The URL segment for api-route is your Payload configured base API route (by default /api), insights-slug is the collection slug for the PageSpeed Insights collection (by default pagespeed-insights), and :id? is an optional parameter representing a PageSpeed Insights doc id.

Query parameters

If a doc id is passed as a url segment, then the query parameters are overriden by the fields in the doc. To view available query parameters, see the PageSpeed API Reference.

Example HTTP request

If no doc id is provided, then the url query parameter is required.

GET /api/pagespeed-insights/report?url=https://payloadcms.com

Example HTTP request with doc id

GET /api/pagespeed-insights/68aa352d42f08695dd833412/report

Response body

A successful request will return:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

If you’d like to improve this plugin, feel free to open an issue or PR.

License

MIT © 2025 saikhon.dev