Is PageSpeed Insights safe?
PageSpeed Insights sends the current page URL to Google's PageSpeed Insights API when you open its sidebar.
When you click the extension action, it injects its content script and opens a sidebar on the active page. The sidebar submits that page's URL to Google's PageSpeed Insights endpoint twice, once for mobile analysis and once for desktop analysis, using a bundled API key.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed PageSpeed Insights contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v5/runPagespeed
PageSpeed Insights sends data to www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v5/runPagespeed. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.