If you scroll down to the bottom of this site you should see 4 green circles. Those are generated using Speedlify and displayed on the site using Speedlify Score.
What is Speedlify? It’s a benchmarking tool to measure site performance created by Zach Leatherman, the creator of Eleventy SSG.
In the background, Speedlify uses Google’s Lighthouse which calculate the speed of a website based on 4 categories:
- Performance
- Accessibility
- Best Practices
- SEO
Each category has multiple checks that must be passed to get a full score.
In the Speedlify repository, I can use the one-click Deploy to Netlify button to spin my own Speedlify website.
Netlify only offers 300 minutes per month build time, and according to Zack there’s a maximum of 15 minutes per Speedlify build.
More pages to test + More test runs = More time used.
While GitHub Actions on the other hand offer unlimited build time for public repositories and 2000 minutes per month for private repositories.
After doing a little bit of research about Speedlify, I came across this repository that allow me to use GitHub Actions to build AND deploy my Speedlify site to GitHub Pages.
So I modified it in a way that will allow me to have the best of both worlds. Use GitHub Actions to build Speedlify, and then deploy it to Netlify. This way, I wouldn’t use my Netlify build minutes.
I made my workflow public on GitHub as a template so you can use it too.
With Speedlify Actions Netlify, I wouldn’t need to worry about how many sites I test with Speedlify, or the amount of tests I run daily.
