How to Test Your Site’s Performance

Having a site that loads fast is very important, and we need the right tools to test how fast our website is loading. If it's not fast, it's also crucial to know what is providing the bottleneck. Here are some of my favorite services for analysing website performance.
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Having a site that loads fast is very important, and we need the right tools to test how fast our website is loading. If it’s not fast, it’s also crucial to know what is providing the bottleneck.

Here are some of my favorite services for analysing website performance:

Web Page Test

web page test

GT Metrix

gt metrix

Pingdom

Pingdom

 

Google PageSpeed Insights

Google pagespeed insights

You can also put two websites head to head and see which one is faster using the Which Loads Faster service.

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Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.

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3 Responses

  1. There is also YSlow by Yahoo it’s pretty similar to PageSpeed and is installed as browser extension, last time i used it, the extension offered more improvements tips than PS, can’t tell how it is now.

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