What Are Performance Signals?
Performance signals are the on-page proxies for how fast and stable a page feels to a real visitor — its transfer weight and how many scripts it pulls in. Real page speed is measured separately, from real-user experience.
The 2 Signals in This Category
Each is defined the way a customer would read it — plainly, with no fix instruction and no data source named. DNA Match counts a signal only where the winners in your market clearly separate from the trailing pages.
- Page transfer weight
- How heavy the page is to download — the total transfer weight a visitor's connection has to pull.
- Number of script includes
- How many separate scripts the page loads — each one is more for a browser to fetch and run before the page settles.
The Questions People Ask
What are performance signals?
Performance signals are the on-page proxies for how fast and stable a page feels to a real visitor — its transfer weight and how many scripts it pulls in. Real page speed is measured separately, from real-user experience.
Do these signals tell me how to fix my site?
No. These are definitions — what each signal is and why the winning pages carry it. The specific work belongs to the member report and the Rank Codex, never a public page.
The Rank Codex reads these signals at depth, in the order they are worth the work — decomposed and specific to your market.