Norval or a PageSpeed score?

For measuring load speed there is nothing better. It is also the most misread number on the web: 100 out of 100 says nothing about whether a site is safe or current.

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Side by side

	PageSpeed and Lighthouse	Norval
What it measures	Loading performance, in a lab and from real visitors	Design, security, speed, search, presence and age
Security	Not covered	Headers, certificate, exposed versions, known flags
How old the site is	Not covered	The year it was built, read from what it ships
Who can read it	Not covered	Which AI crawlers robots.txt and the server allow
Depth on speed	Far deeper than ours, with field data from real Chrome users	Signals only: response time, caching, compression, image weight
What you do next	A list of technical opportunities	A fix list in the order a person would do it

Where pagespeed and lighthouse wins

It uses data from real Chrome visitors that nobody else can see.
Free, instant, no email.
If speed is the question, use it. We do.

Where we do

A perfect score on WordPress 5.8 with a dead theme is a fast way to be hacked.
It cannot tell you the site was built in 2016, which is usually the real reason.
It will not tell you ChatGPT is blocked, or that nothing counts your visitors.

Honest answer

Run both. If they disagree about speed, believe Google.

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