Introduction

Website loading speed has become the most important part of the website development from last few years. And to optimize it during the development phase is the primary duty of the developers. We as a Professional Website Design Company has listed down the useful Web applications & tools to measure the web performance. But first there is a need to understand its importance in the web development.

Why Speed Optimization is Important?

Website loading speed has always remained important in the website development process. Usually every user has different connection speed through which it connects. So your web page should not be composed of heavy elements in order to have fast loading speed of your web pages.

As Google announce loading speed of the website as ranking factor, it forces the webmasters that they must have to give extra importance to loading speed of website.

There are some factors that must be handled carefully in order to increase the website loading speed:

• Redirects
• Cookie Sizes
• Dom Access
• Use of Images
• Components size

Consider the best 18 Website Speed and Performance Checking Tools & web applications:

Web Application Tools

1. Pingdom

Pingdom perform test to check the loading speed of all the objects of a website such as HTML, Frames/iFrames, Images, RSS, CSS. It gives the graphical view of loading times of each item which is very easy to understand and check the individual loading speed of each element. It shows the report of website loading time, loading time of each element, number of elements and total number of elements as a summary of test.

2. GTmetrix

GTmetrix is the online website speed test service which actually combines two different tools YSlow and Google-Page-Speed. Yslow is the add-on of Firefox and Page-Speed is the tool of Google. These both tools are used to check the loading speed of a web page. To select the any one out of them is very difficult to analyze the web page performance. GTmetix eliminate the confusion about selection of the tool among them bi mixing both of them.

3. Light Speed Now

Just put the URL of your website and your email too and get the report of URL’s loading speed in Email. It also gives the suggestions to increase the loading speed.

4. Load Impact

Loadimpact allows you to check out that how many users can be handled at a time by your website without affecting its loading speed. Its free account allows you to check the loading impact of 50 simulated users.

5. Site Perf

Site Perf is very useful tool to check the performance of website according the browser used to open the webpage. It works exactly as the real user opens a webpage in a browser. It provide a true performance picture to find the elements that you need to improve loading speed of your website.

6. Web Wait

Use to benchmark your website or test the connection speed. It also provides the toolbar to make  the testing process easy.

7. Gomez

Gomez allows you to conduct the real time performance test for a webpage from an external node location. In report it displays the DNS lookup time, connection time, first byte, content download and Redirect Time.

8. OctaGate

It visits the page and download all the elements to give you a clear picture that how much time is require to download one or more pages of your website.

9. Webslug

It allows you to compare the speed of your website with your competitor’s website speed. It can compare the website page by page.

10. Web Tool Hub

It allows you all the things required for the basic web page speed test.  With WebToolHub you can check the size of any webpage and also the loading time of that page with different internet connections.

11. I Web Tool

It is very effective tool which provide the ratio of webpage size and the loading time of that page it provides the average time per KB.

12. Rapid Search Metrics

It shows the time taken by the website to open and also shows the detail of each element attached to the webpage such as images, CSS, Java scripts.

13. Browser Mob

It allows getting performance data without running and testing script. It represents the time taken by each element in form of pie chart which makes it easy to understand the performance of each element.

Application Tools/ Plug-ins

1. Pylot

For performance and scalability test, Pylot is an open source tool. It generates the HTTP request, check for the server response and produce reports with metrics. This process is called the HTTP load test which makes the capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis and system tuning easy.

2. Google Page Speed

Page speed is the open source tool for webpage speed checking. It mostly used by the developers to check the performance of the webpage and to get suggestion on how to improve them.

3. YSlow

YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the firebug. It gets information about all the elements load on the page and display the stats in form of pie chart. It also suggests the ways to improve their performance based on three predefined or used defined rulesets.

4. Page Test

PageTest is an Internet Explorer plug-in that show the requests made by the browser visually. It also gives the suggestions on how to improve the performance of the page.

5. Multi-Mechanize

Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for load testing and web performance. To generate load against a web site, it allows to run simultaneous python scripts.

Please leave your comments about the post and share the tools, applications or web services which you use for the speed optimization of your website.

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