How to Test Your Site's 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:

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Greg Winiarski says:

January 2, 2014 at 13:30

There is also YSlow by Yahoo http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/ 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.

John says:

December 30, 2013 at 05:09

Too bad you missed http://tools.pingdom.com

Wendell says:

December 30, 2013 at 00:38

I prefer Google PageSpeed Insights at http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

How to Test Your Site’s Performance

Table Of Contents

Before We Get Started

Introduction

Web Page Test

GT Metrix

Pingdom

Google PageSpeed Insights

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