The number of websites keep increasing tremendously on the internet day by day, which makes running a successful blog a very hard job. A smartblogger needs to work on how to stand out and rank higher in SERP, therefore focusing on things like Unique design, Traffic, SEO, earnings and getting new visitors to keep topping the game with their competitors. Keeping a fast website loading speed should not be left out as well. Today I will be sharing top 10 online tools to test website loading speed.
A slow website tends to lose traffic due to slow site loading, rank lower in search engine results (because google cares for it's users and always list the fast website with high user experience first), experience high bounce rate (because visitors will just take what they want and bounce up knowing well that opening another page takes forever to load). It's recommended to maintain a faster website.
Best 10 Online Tools the Test Site Loading Speed.
There are many online tools to test website loading speed but today I decided to list 10 site speed tester I use.1. Google PageSpeed Insights Tools
Google PageSpeed insights tool is an online website speed testing tools which test and analyze a website across both mobile and desktop devices and give grades score ranging from 1 to 100 according to their performances. The higher your score the more your site is optimized and user friendly. PageSpeed give reports on both desktop and mobile version on your website while it also gives recommendations on how to improve your site loading speed such as Minifying Css and Javascript, Optimizing Images, Leveraging browser catching and so on.
PageSpeed Insights measures how the page can improve its performance on:
- time to above-the-fold load: Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page and to the moment the above-the-fold content is rendered by the browser.
- time to full page load: Elapsed time from the moment a user requests a new page to the moment the page is fully rendered by the browser.
2. Gtmetrix
Gtmetrix is one of the best tools for measuring website speed. I personally love using this tool because it checks Google PageSpeed Score, Website load time and YSlow metrics. Similar to google PageSpeed insights tools, GTmetrix also grade your site from F to A and gives reports in five sections which includes PageSpeed, YSlow, Waterfall, Video and History.
3. Pingdom
Pingdom is also a popular website speed test tools on the net to check and test for website speed from four different locations including
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- Melbourne, Australia
- San Jose, California, USA
- Stockholm, Sweden
Pingdom speed test tools offers additional informations like Page Size Per Domain, page size by content type, numbers of request per domain etc. They also provide more optimization speed to help increase wep page loading speed.