How to Test Your Site’s Performance

Written by Jean Galea
Written by Jean Galea

Last updated on 13 Sep 2022

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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Introduction

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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<span style="font-weight: 400">Written by: </span>Jean Galea
Written by: Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger.

He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast.

His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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