8 Free Tools for Testing Website Speed
Website speed is not something that should be taken lightly, especially since it has such a big impact on SEO. To help you out, today we gathered 8 free tools for testing your website speed. Some of the tools will generate suggestions to make things faster on your site, while others will give you detailed info about load speed and other things. So make sure to check out each of them.
PageSpeed Insights
PageSpeed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.
Load Impact
Load test your website online, we offer load testing and reporting as an online service to e-commerce & B2B sites all over the world.
Neustar Web Performance
A quick and easy way to get performance data on any website without having to create a test script.
WebPagetest
Run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple tests or perform advanced testing including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking and much more.
OctaGate SiteTimer
pingdom
Which Loads Faster
Pages compete head-to-head in your browser to see who’s fastest!
Show Slow
Show Slow is an open source tool that helps monitor various website performance metrics over time. It captures the results of YSlow, Page Speed, WebPageTest and dynaTrace AJAX Edition rankings and graphs them, to help you understand how various changes to your site affect its performance.
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11 comments
aledesign.it
May 24, 2012R^Thanks for this list. So useful…more tools important for every designer! Thanks for sharing.
Simon Fletcher
May 24, 2012Thanks for sharing this post. Its great to have tools like this especially now the world of web and interface design includes a lot more javascript.
jzatt
May 24, 2012Thanks for the list. Some that I hadn’t seen before, will check those out! I’ve been using another service not mentioned here as well; gtmetrix.com
SentConcepts
May 24, 2012I’ve used most of those!!
Tyler Byrd
May 24, 2012Great list. We personally use Pingdom and New Relic. Prefer New Relic because you get a much better perspective of what is happening, but it takes a while to get set up. That is one benefit of Pingdom which is pretty quick and takes absolutely no setup time.
I have not seen a couple of these others tho. The first two look like they provide a very nice graphic interface for displaying results. I will need to check them out. Thanks for the list!
Jonathan Schmid
May 25, 2012You forgot GTmetrix – the best tool of them all!
Gagan Chhatwal
May 26, 2012yes GTmetrix is one of the best tool available on Internet, rest is ok but with GTmetrix you can analysis your website way better than others..
Christopher Becker
May 28, 2012Awesome set of web apps, I use none of the above listed apps, but still a interesting read *thumbs up*
sunil
May 29, 2012Thanks for such a great & useful post list. this is very useful in my projects many many thanks again.
Fahad Ahammed
June 20, 2012Thanks a lot for this list . Very usefull !!!!
Nimsrules
September 11, 2012These are great resources. It’s time AAdobe integrates one such tool in Dreamweaver after W3C validation.