4 Great Tools for Testing the Speed of your Site
When it comes to optimising a website most site owners are now aware of the importance of good SEO and good content. What a lot of them also forget to do however, is make sure their site loads quickly. These days most people are only willing to wait around for a second or two before they move away to a different site – so if your site is not optimized for speed then you will be constantly losing valuable visitors and potential conversions.
To make sure your site loads swiftly and cleanly, check out the following speed testing tools:
Page Speed Online: As usual the first place to look is with Google’s own tools – in this case their Page Speed Online tool, a web-based offshoot of Page Speed (a popular browser extension) – which will perform an analysis of your site performance according to their Web Performance Best Practices (which are rules for optimizing front end performance). This brilliant tool will give in depth reports on your site speed and loading issues.
Pingdom Tools – This is an excellent free tool provided by Pingdom (a website, network and server monitoring company) that will give you all kinds of reports on how long it takes for web pages to load as well as grading their performance on issues such as browser caching. Additionally they also provide detailed reports on things such as requests, page sizes and load times.
Which loads faster? – This is an intriguing tool that will take two different websites and compare them in terms of their loading speeds.
Load Impact – Another free performance and load speed-testing tool that will provide you with detailed reports as to your site’s capability for handling website traffic. Load Impact can deliver graphed data on requests per second, user load time speed and all kinds of other essential optimization factors.
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