Tools to Check your Website’s Loading Time

Written by Jean Galea
Written by Jean Galea

Last updated on 13 Sep 2022

When optimising WordPress sites, you always need to check how long it takes to load your pages, and you need a good reliable tool to do that, as your own internet connection might be unreliable, or there could be caching distorting the results. Here are some good tools that can help you with benchmarking. If you need help in making your website go faster, get in touch because we can help out with that.

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When optimising WordPress sites, you always need to check how long it takes to load your pages, and you need a good reliable tool to do that, as your own internet connection might be unreliable, or there could be caching distorting the results.

Here are some good tools that can help you with benchmarking.

If you need help in making your website go faster, get in touch because we can help out with that.

Pingdom Tools

pingdom tools

Go to Pingdom Tools

GTmetrix

gtmetrix

Go to GTmetrix

Web Page Test

webpagetest

Go to Web Page Test

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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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2 Responses

  1. These tools are one of important things we should know to improve a speed for any website. From my suggest, Tools.pingdom will help you the most.
    Also WPMayor should take a look for some SEO Tools which can help all webmasters detect their websites should be on future? 🙂

  2. Hello Jean
    Page loading time is the most critical for a blog. I heard this from money of others but I don’t didn’t know the tools for checking it for my site. Thanks for sharing these tools with us.

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