How to Read the GTmetrix Performance and Structure Sections at Hostinger

Understanding Performance and Structure sections inside the report about your website

Updated 2 weeks ago

The Performance and Structure sections of GTmetrix provide you with the following:

Performance

It contains a comprehensive explanation of each metric and its recommended values. To see more information, enable Metric details:

GTmetrix Performance tab with Metric details toggle highlighted on the right

You can use the information from this page to identify the key metrics of your website’s performance and what you can improve following the recommendations in the Structure tab.

Structure

The Structure section contains the full list of potential issues that may be affecting your website’s performance. We recommend addressing High and Medium issues first while leaving Low ones for the end.

GTmetrix Structure tab showing the “Avoid long main-thread tasks” audit with High impact

Clicking on the downward arrow next to an issue will display more details. From there, you can click on Learn how to improve this for suggestions on how to fix it:

GTmetrix Structure tab showing “Avoid long main-thread tasks” with a “Learn how to improve this” button

In case you are using WordPress, you can refer to these tutorials for tackling the most common optimization issues:

Here are some tutorials for other Content Management Systems or custom websites: