Site Speed Analytics Tools
Site Speed Analytics Tools
Optimizing your website for speed is one of the most important factors affecting its success. The patience span of most internet users today is short when it comes to loading times. Having a fast site with short loading times has been shown to improve retention and user activity, decrease costs and increase overall revenue. Additionally, most industry experts predict that Google and other major search engines will soon make speed a factor in determining search engine rankings. Speed analytics tools can help you monitor your website’s speed and find ways of optimizing it further for better performance and results. Here are just a few of the best site speed analytics tools available on the web.
Google’s Site Performance
Google’s Site Performance tool is still in the experimental stage, but it works pretty well thus far. This webmaster tool displays speed information about your web site as well as suggestions on how to make your site faster. You’ll be able to see exactly how long it takes for pages to load, how their speed performance appears over time and how your site’s speed compares to the speed of competitor sites. You’ll also get “Page Speed” suggestions on specific ways to help reduce user-perceived slowness.
Website Optimization Speed Test Tool
This free web tool allows you to find out the speed of any webpage by simply entering the site’s URL into the application. The tool calculates the page’s size, composition and its download time, as well as the size of the individual elements making up the web page. It then uses these results to offer some useful advice on how to improve page load time. It does so using the best practices from the Website Optimization Secrets website, which provides things like page size guidelines and optimization techniques.
Pingdom Page Load Test Tool
The Pingdom Page Load Test Tool loads a full HTML web page along with all objects, including images, CSS, RSS, Flash components and JavaScripts, mimicking the way the page would load on a browser. The load times of all the objects as well as the overall page load time are displayed on a bar graph, so you can see a visual representation of the stats. You can view the objects list by hierarchy or by load order. Other general page statistics that are displayed by this load test tool include things like total number of objects and object sizes.
Uptrends Page Load Test Tool
Uptrends’s page load test tool is another great resource that will help you determine your web pages load speed from various physical locations around the world. See how people experience your page in terms of speed from Singapore, Shanghai, New York City, Berlin, and more. The tool tests the speed of a complete HTML page along with all objects, in a similar fashion as Pingdom. Load times are all displayed next to their corresponding objects, which include all content from third parties, content such as advertisements and links.
Link Vendor
This tool divides your web page’s elements into categories, such as images, scripts and style sheets. In addition to all of the standard load time statistics, Link Vendor’s load tool also shows you how fast your pages load on different internet connections.
This is a guest post from Ben Rozema of Best Rank, a San Diego SEO Company. Go and check out their blog.