Website speed performance and optimization is crucial for user engagement, especially for all the mobile user experience. You don’t want negative experience that turns user away and hurt your business.
Developers need to measure performance to get insights into their users’ experiences. There are many tools for web developers that help to improve the quality of your website, web app or general just web best practices. Also, to maintain the quality of your website which is really important, you want to ensure that your web app stays fast and meets user requirements.
I will be sharing below and in the next few blog posts some helpful resources, links , tools and web talk’s videos about Website speed performance tools and optimization. Enjoy!
6 free website speed test tools to measure performance for mobile and desktop devices:
PageSpeedInsights
A tool by Google to learn and analyze your website performance.
WebPagetest
A free website speed test tool that gives you the flexibility to customize your test by using real browsers at consumer connection speeds.
Getmetrix
Another tool that gives you insight on how well your site loads along with some actionable recommendations.
KeyCDN
This tool offers a wide range of features such as Website Speed Test, IP Location Finder, DNS Check, Ping Test and many more.
Sucuri
Helps you measure how long it would take to connect to your website and for a single page to fully load. They pay attention to “time to first byte”. Good for all CDN (Content Delivery Network) users.
Pingdom
Monitor up-time and performance of your website. Analyze results and find bottlenecks.