Website Speed Test Tools for Optimizing Web Performance
Website Speed is a critical element of running a successful website and should
always be a priority for site managers. In addition to providing a
lag-free and responsive user experience, a fast loading website also has
a direct impact on the overall performance of the website. Faster
loading websites benefit from better user engagement, higher conversion
rates, higher SEO rankings and much more.
Good Page speed of any websites is a most important
thing. If your website is taking very long time to load then
most of visitors will close your site even before watching any
content.
Google
search ranking factor also include website speed in their ranking
signal. If your website speed is good then google rank your site in top.
Improving website speed is critical, but it can be a daunting
process that involves many moving parts between onsite optimization to network
and accessibility configurations. However, if performance truly matters, you
have no choice but to take it on one step at a time. A good place to
start would be to run some tests and find out how fast you site really is.
After experimenting with various website speed test tools, I
have narrowed it down these five as the recommended tools based on usability,
accessibility and how comprehensive the reports are.
round-trip times.
YSlow
analyzes web pages, suggests why they’re slow based on Yahoo!’s rules for high
performance web sites, and then offers suggestions for improvement. When
analyzing a web page, YSlow deducts points for each infraction of a rule and
then applies a grade to each rule.
GTmetrix
uses PageSpeed and YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides
recommendations to fix. The site also features tools to monitor your site and
track its performance, such as video playback and performance reports.
Pingdom
lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, and too big, as well as
the best practices you’re not following. View file sizes, load times, total website
speed and other details about every page element. You can sort and filter this
list in different ways to identify performance bottlenecks.
Web Page Analyzer is a simple and straightforward
web page speed analyzer. Enter a URL to get page size, composition, and
download time. It sums up page components, and then offers advice on how to
improve page load time.
comprehensive the reports are.
Google PageSpeed Insights grades both the desktop and mobile
site speeds. The tool fetches the URL twice, once from a desktop agent and once
from a mobile agent, and produces a ‘site rank’ based on a scale of 1 -100. The
higher the number, the better optimized you site is for speed (at least in
Google’s eyes). A returned scored of 85 or higher indicates the site’s speed is
performing well.
There is also an Chrome
extension available, which allows assessment of any page from
the Developers Page Speed tab. PageSpeed Insights provides a balanced overview
of site speed and actions to take in order to improve page performance and the
site as a whole.
PageScoring’s Website Speed Test loads the entered domain and
provides a comprehensive display of how long its contents took to load. As seen
in the screenshot, PageScoring reports on several transmittal processes that
occur during a website request, including domain lookup, redirection time,
download time and much more.
This is an effective tool for measuring performance in real time
and provides webmasters with valuable site performance information that
isolates individual pieces of data.
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