Website speed is a primary factor for user experience and bounce rate. Let us see the websites useful to check speed of website.
Every website have Images, Java Script and CSS codes. We need to enable compression mechanisms to speed up website.
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How to check the speed of website?
There are few website speed testing online tools available, they will really make our life easier. The webpage speed testing websites are
- PageSpeed Insights by Google
- GTMetrix
- Pingdom Tools
- Webpage Test
PageSpeed Insights by Google
PageSpeed Insights is the best tool to check the speed of your webpage.
it will give the score, out of 100 for both mobile and desktop.
Try to rectify the warnings suggested by pagespeed insights. The major points covered here are
Initial server response time.
preload key requests
render blocking resources
unused java script and CSS
Apart from these main points, it will also suggest everything under 4 categories
- Labdata
- Opportunities
- Diagnostics
- Passed Audits
Try to focus more on this pagespeed insights, it is directly connected with Google.
GTmetrix
GTmetrix is one of the popular webpage speed testing website. It will give very detailed analysis of your webpage loading. let us see how to check speed of website using GTmetrix.
GTmetrix gives you two performance scores, page speed score and YSlow score. YSlow contains a 34 rules based on Yahoo’s rules.
Keep focus on fully loaded time, as it impact your bounce rate of your website.
Pagespeed in GTmetrix will show you where there is a problem in loading. Try to rectify those problems as soon as possible to give better experience and faster loading times to visitors of your website.
Check the above Yslow image for impacting areas. For my webisite GeekChalk, I have found that Expired headers and DNS lookups are the problems and I need to rectify them to improve the speed score.
Pingdom Tools
Pingdom tools also one of the popular application to test your webpage. It wont give much more in detailed explanation,
Test your site from your desired location and find the performance grade, page size, load time as a result.
WebPageTest
Webpage test gives you complete analysis of your webpage under 5 points
Security score,
First Byte time,
Keepalive enables,
compress transfer,
compress images,
Cache static content and
CDN (Content delivery network) usage
For all the above parameters, the rating is from A to F. F indicates the lowest score. we need to improve the F score to attain the speed of our website.
It is strongly advised to check speed of website and pages on all the four websites and rectify the problems mentioned in those websites to achieve better performance for your website.
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