10 Free Online Tools To Test Website Loading Speed
17 Jul, 2008
Free Stuff/Services, SEO
We know that website loading speed is one of the key to detainment more visitors. An average loading period like 1-5 seconds are normally acceptable to keep people waiting.
In order to improve a website loading performance, we can either start with clean CSS or WordPress plugin like super cache. But how to make sure a website is loaded faster after we have done so much upgrade?
For this, I would suggest you to test your website speed with the following online tools. They are totally FREE!
Web Page Analyzer helps to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component.
2. WebSlug
WebSlug measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made. You can also compare your website’s speed against your competitors.
3. WebWait
WebWait is a website timer and it benchmarks your website or test the speed of your web connection.
Internet Supervision monitors the availability, performance, and content of your website, web server and internet services from our UL approved offices with 24/7 personnel in Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Santiago, Chile.
Website Pulse verifies the server status, downloads the full HTML content and measures the response time of the test website.
6. iWebTool
iWebTool allows you to test up to 10 websites at a same time.
7. Vertain
Vertain is a simple and straight forward website speed testing tool.
8. Link Vendor
Link Vendor shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.
9. Hot Pulse
Hot Pulse has developed a performance speed test on several web host providers to determine the response time from several locations in North and South America.
10. Pingdom Tools
Pingdom Tools loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.
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daniel said,
Wrote on July 25, 2008 @ 8:07 am
Good one k-director. Thanks for sharing all these cool tools.
Kay said,
Wrote on July 25, 2008 @ 8:30 am
@daniel, no problem.
cloudsters said,
Wrote on July 25, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Heh, had a blast trying out these sites, especially Webslug… the ‘duelling’ concept can be rather addictive.
Also, was shocked at how slow our blog was compared to other sites!
Kay said,
Wrote on July 25, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
@cloudsters, there are many factors to cause a website loading slow like snail. maybe I will post it in my next entry.
cloudsters said,
Wrote on July 25, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
Ach so! Cheers!
zuborg said,
Wrote on September 11, 2008 @ 9:39 pm
Nice list, but may be you could consider to add http://Site-Perf.com/ to it. It’s free online tool which measure site loading speed and quality of internet connection of you server, and provides detailed testing results.
botipc said,
Wrote on October 7, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
thank you your service