Website Page Speed

Top 6 Website Speed Test Tools to Boost Your Business

Posted On : February 19th, 2019   By : Dillip Kumar Mohanty   To : Technical SEO

Everybody hates a site that take much time to load & so is Google & other search engines.

Since last few years, mobile searches have been increased exponentially. The worst experience a user face while accessing web in mobile is the loading speed of a page. It feels like waiting for eternity.

So, Google has updated its algo & brought a new ranking factor “mobile-friendliness” & page load speed is a critical signal in this new update.

Increasing the loading speed is highly technical and requires in-depth understanding. To help & guide webmasters and developers, there are different speed testing tools available.

Here we’re going to discuss the top 6 website speed tools that will help you in accessing the speed of your website.

1. PageSpeed Insights

PageSpeed Insights

In the top of our list is the PageSpeed Insights tool which is an excellent platform to test the response time of your website. The PageSpeed Insight tool rates the speed of your website on a scale of 1 to 100 and the higher is the score, the better is the speed of your website.

In addition to this, the PageSpeed Insight will give you a report for both the desktop and mobile version of your website. What makes the PageSpeed Insight tool interesting is the fact that it gives suggestion on where your websites lag behind in speed and what all improvements you can bring to increase its speed.

For example, if required, this tool will suggest you to eliminate render-blocking resources, serving images in next-gen formats, or deferring unused CSS to increase page speed. Furthermore, you can get an analytical breakdown of the various parameters of your website.

2. Pingdom Website Speed Test

Pingdom Website Speed Test

Pingdom is a very popular website speed test tool and one thing that is unique to Pingdom is that they provide you with an option of at least 7 prime locations to test the speed of your website from these areas.

Some of the locations offered by Pingdom are Asia- Japan- Tokyo, Europe- Germany- Frankfurt, Europe- United Kingdom- London, North America- USA- Washington DC, North America- USA- San Francisco, Pacific- Australia- Sydney, South America- Brazil- Sao Paulo.

The analysis report of a website by Pingdom is broken into four different sections for better scrutiny of the website and where the particular website can improve. The sections include performance grade, page size, loading time and requests.

In addition to this, they also suggest you about improve page performance, response codes, website’s content and file requests.

3. GTmetrix

GTmetrix

One of the most interesting thing about GTmetrix is that along with checking the Page speed, it also scrutinizes the YSlow metrics. The best thing about GTmetrix is that it assigns the various parameters of your website based on grading from F to A.

This way the parameters that slow down your website are graded F and the grading improves based on the response time of the various parameters. The report is broken down into five different sections consisting of Page speed, YSlow, Waterfall, Timings, Video and History.

In addition to this, if you are registering with them they will offer you to test the speed of your website from 7 different locations and you can also choose the browser between Chrome and Firefox. They also provide you with an additional option of blocking the ads and test the speed of your website.

4. Uptrends

Uptrends Website Speed Test

Uptrends is a simple to use website speed analysis tool offering their clients 35 locations to choose for their speed test. The report published by the Uptrends is broken down into two sections consisting of waterfall breakdown and domain groups.

The unique feature of Uptrends is that their domain groups categorizes the website resources into different sources like 1st party, statistics, CDN, social, ads, first party overall and third party overall.

5. Varvy

Varvy Page Speed Optimization Tool

The Varvy page speed optimization tool will give you a summary of the analysis done by it. The summary is broken into three parts; the server, page and resources.

On the other hand, the website speed analysis report consists of five different sections which are resource diagram, CSS delivery, Javascript usage, image optimization and browser caching. In addition to this, they also provide you with documentation to further improve your site by improving certain parameters.

6. WebPage Test

WebPageTest

The WebPage Test tool has gone a step further and offers 40 locations to choose from and over 25 browsers which includes mobile alongside the option of exactly pinpointing your location on the map. They grade the performance of your website from F to A by analyzing parameters like First Byte Time, Keep-alive Enabled, Compress Transfer, Compress Images, Cache Static Content and Effective Use of CDN.

The report generated is divided into eight sections consisting of summary, details, performance review, content breakdown, domains, screenshots, image analysis and request map.

Finally

The above-discussed website speed tools are some of the finest ones that you can use to check the speed of your website. It is essential that you keep an eye on the response time of your website so that you can garner better ranking in comparison to your competitors which will boost your ranking & ultimately your business.

Dillip Kumar Mohanty

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