Welcome to GTmetrix PRO!
As a PRO user, you have access to more performance insights and reporting to help keep your site optimized and running smoothly.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to get started with your PRO plan and set up your performance analysis like, well…a pro!
If you haven’t gotten acquainted with the Basics of GTmetrix, read this article first: Getting Started with GTmetrix.
Key PRO Features
You get some pretty nifty functionality with GTmetrix PRO – The key differences relate mostly to monitoring/API usage and premium Analysis Options. We detail them below:
1) More Testing
With your PRO plan, you can naturally test more pages than a Basic/Free user, as well as enable monitoring on your pages.
We recommend monitoring your pages in different devices, connection speeds and regions for a more complete view of your page performance. Read more on Why you should monitor your page for performance.
PRO users also have access to more Advanced Options (including Simulated Devices) and other developer-focused options.
With GTmetrix PRO also comes more daily API Credits depending on your plan so that you can make more extensive use of our testing platform for your integrations.
Lastly, the availability of more API analysis options and parameters are at your finger tips. You can find complete details on our API in the GTmetrix API page.
2) Hourly Monitoring*
Hourly Monitoring helps you see how your site performs throughout the day.
Excluding the Micro and Solo plans, all other PRO plans and select Custom plans have access to hourly testing in the Monitor frequency dropdown.
Be sure to combine monitoring with Alerts to get notified if/when you’re experiencing performance issues.
* Micro and Solo plans do not have access to hourly monitoring
3) Longer Report Retention
Long report retention allows you to see trends in your performance over time, and keep track of your performance for greater benchmarking.
All generated reports are automatically retained for a specific time period, based on your plan level:
- Micro plans can retain report data for up to 1 month.
- Individual (Solo, Starter, and Growth) plans can retain report data for up to 6 months.
- Business plans (Champion and Team) retain report data for up to 12 months.
- Enterprise plan users have access to historical report data for up to 24 months.
Retention periods start from the time at which your test was generated.
4) Testing and Monitoring in Multiple Global Test Locations
As a PRO user, you can monitor your page in multiple global Test Locations to ensure your page loads well for all your visitors worldwide.
Micro plan users have access to monitoring from 7 Global Locations (i.e., Free Test Locations).
All other PRO plan users (Solo and above) have access to our Premium Test Locations, which adds another set of 15 specialized locations around the world to cater to your needs.
We recommend you review your logs/analytics to see where most of your visitors are coming from, then select the closest test region to monitor for the most representative results.
5) Test With Mobile Devices (Real-Hardware* and Simulated)
PRO users have access to mobile testing, located in our Analysis Options section of the Dashboard.
You can simulate your page load on over 40 different device models and variants and apply Analysis Options to fit your testing scenarios. Read more on How to Simulate Devices with GTmetrix.
PRO users (except Micro plans) can also test pages with Chrome mobile on a real hardware Android device (only available in our default Vancouver, Canada location).
* Micro plans do not have access to real hardware Android device
Other PRO Features
More features are available with PRO that can help you get a better handle of your page performance.
Note that some features are only available in select PRO plans.
Priority Access for Tests
PRO users get priority access in the queue for their tests.
This means you wait less during peak usage periods and your reports generate faster than Basic/Free users.
Share Your PRO Account With Your Team*
If your plan has access to Team Logins, you can share your PRO account with your team members.
The Team Logins feature allows you to add members, assign roles to them for tiered access, and configure GTmetrix Alerts to be sent to multiple team members.
All members of the team can login to their own GTmetrix account yet have access to the same Dashboard of a PRO account.
Check out our detailed guide on how the Team Logins feature works.
* Team Logins is available on Team and Enterprise plans, or as add-ons to Growth, Champion, and Custom plans.
Dashboard Filters and Tags
You can create unlimited Dashboard filters and tags to help organize your pages and reports.
Have a look at our complete guides on Dashboard Filters and Tags:
Video Alerts
With Video Alerts, you can save video playback of your page when an alert is triggered.
See exactly how your page behaved after an alert and get more insight on user experiences.
Advanced Options
All PRO plan and select Custom plan users have access to even more features listed under Advanced Options.
We explain our main features here:
- How to Simulate Devices
- How to Test with Custom Connection Speeds
- How to use Presets
- How to Override your DNS
White-labelled PDFs*
GTmetrix Team & Enterprise PRO plan users can brand their PDF reports with a logo and company description.
This feature is also available as an Add-on to PRO plans (Growth plan and up) and select Custom plans.
In your Account page, you’ll see a “Branded PDF Settings” option in the “PRO Settings” box.
Clicking it will expand a sidebar with all of your Branded PDF options.
All PDFs generated – including ones from the API – will use your custom logo and descriptions.
* White-labelled PDFs are available on Team and Enterprise plans, or as add-ons to Growth, Champion, and Custom plans.
Managing Your PRO Plan
All of your user settings, Team Settings, PRO plan details and options are available for management from the Account page.
You can view and manage details such as:
- GTmetrix Usage Details
View your GTmetrix usage, see when your next test credit refills are, see your plan details.
- Update Billing Info
Change credit card details, billing addresses and contacts, etc.
- Past Invoices
Click on “Past Invoices” – a menu will slide out with a drop-down listing all of your previous invoices.
- Branded PDF Settings
Select users only. See above for details on how to set up a Branded PDF with GTmetrix PRO
- GTmetrix API Details
See your API usage details as well as mobile, Test Location and Advanced Options parameters on the API page.
- Modify/Cancel PRO plan
Modify your plan depending on your needs and cancel your PRO plan at any time (though we hope you won’t!)
- Team Settings
Everything you need to manage your team such as Creating/Editing your Team Profile, Adding/Deleting Team members, Transferring Ownership to another Team Member.
Of course, if you need any assistance regarding your PRO plan, please feel free to contact us!
PRO Support
As a GTmetrix PRO subscriber, we welcome you to reach out to us for support or assistance. Here are a few things we can help out with:
- Bulk URL upload
- Change http:// URLs to https://
- PO or manual invoice billing terms
- Custom reporting or API integration requirements
- … let us know what you need!
We’re eager to provide guidance with anything else you might need, so drop us a message and let’s talk!
