Why is it that Google PageSpeed Insights is not consistent

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I am trying to decide what template works best for my website, as I have about 50 to choose from. To assist in this decision, I am using PageSpeed Insights.

I have tested a few templates, where nothing but the template is changed and I recorded the results. This means that all of my content stays exactly the same.

As I was testing about the 10th or 12th one, I thought some of the numbers looked fishy and I decided to return to some of the first templates I had tested. The scores the second time I tested these first templates were SIGNIFICANTLY different. Sometimes better and sometimes worse, but almost always very different.

Is there a better place to test with some more reliable/repeatable numbers to help me in this decision?

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1 Answers

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Try webpagetest.org, gtmetrix.com, tools.pingdom.com et al.

Note that if you are on shared hosting then resources available to serve your site may vary from test run to test run and thus influence results.