Your website loading speed

24 May 2012 | Marcus Amberton | Internet, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation

How fast does your website load? Have you tested your website loading time across a range of computers and internet connections? Load time is very important, not only affecting how long your page and features within your site take to load, but loading time also has an impact on SEO.

The following article displays a range of ways you can test your page loading speed – give it a go for your website!

Website speed is not something that should be taken lightly, especially since it has such a big impact on SEO. To help you out, today we gathered 8 free tools for testing your website speed. Some of the tools will generate suggestions to make things faster on your site, while others will give you detailed info about load speed and other things. So make sure to check out each of them.

PageSpeed Insights

PageSpeed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.

Load Impact

Load test your website online, we offer load testing and reporting as an online service to e-commerce & B2B sites all over the world.

Neustar Web Performance

A quick and easy way to get performance data on any website without having to create a test script.

OctaGate SiteTimer

pingdom

Which Loads Faster

Pages compete head-to-head in your browser to see who’s fastest!

Show Slow

Show Slow is an open source tool that helps monitor various website performance metrics over time. It captures the results of YSlow, Page Speed, WebPageTest and dynaTrace AJAX Edition rankings and graphs them, to help you understand how various changes to your site affect its performance.

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