2012/01/15

Top 9 Webpage Load Speed Test Tools for Developers

page loading speed test toolsI think, besides web content and web design quality ... page loading speed is an important thing when visiting a web page.

Why page loading speed is so important?

 2 My reasons :

* Waiting is boring for most people. This means, page loading speed be will affect to "comfortable or not" when visitor opening a web page.

* Have an impact on SEO (Search engine optimization). To learn more, you can read it in Google Webmaster Central

I am sure, you as a webmaster or web developer would think about it.

In this post, I will review some useful tools for checking your website load time. These tools will test performance of your website such as Image, CSS problem, Flash, Frames, javascript, etc.

Here are 9 webpage load speed test tools :

1. Google Page Speed

Page Speed test by Google is an open-source project. Designed to help you as a developer to optimize performance of your web page. There are 4 resources you can use includes : Page Speed browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, Page Speed Service, mod_pagespeed for Apache, or Page Speed Online. Through these applications, you will get a suggestion to improve performance of your website.

2. Yahoo! YSlow

You can measure the visibility of your website pages with YSlow like Gzip compression, Minify CSS, Minify Javascript, image, remove duplicate JS and CSS, and much more. Previously, you have to integrate this application with Firebug add-on.

3. Web Page Test

With Web Page Test, you can test your web page loading speed from various locations of the world. Web Page Test will give detailed reports on the performance of your website and suggestions for improvement.

4. Show Slow

Show Slow will test and monitor your web visibility with 3 popular testing tools such as YSlow, Google Page Speed, and dynaTrace AJAX Edition. This tool requires registration.

5. Web Page Analyzer

This tool can calculate the size of your web page, download time, break down the composition of your web page, and give suggestions to your web page load time.

6. Pingdom Tools - Full page test

By using this tool, you can test your webpage loading speed from multiple locations. In addition, you will get detailed statistics about the performance of your web pages such as your web page size, load time, performance grades, and suggestions for improvement.

7. GTmetrix

By using this tool, you will receive 2 combination grades : Google Page Speed and YSlow, accompanied by improvement tips.

8. Which loads faster

This tool can test 2 page load speed simultaneously. With this tool, allows you compare your competitor's web page, or any other site with your website.

9. Ping Brigade

With Ping Brigade, you can test your website on three scales : ping, page load, and web server latency accompanied by maps both in America and Around the World with different servers. With Basic account, you only monitor 1 resource, while for paid membership you can monitor up to 20 resources every 60 seconds.

Hopefully useful for you.

Please for those who want to respond or give additional information. Glad to hear your opinion.

Happy freelancing, keep working, keep your health, and good luck for all! :)

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