Ways to Test Your Website Performance for Page Speed

Ways to Test Your Website Performance are neither paid nor needs special skills. With WordPress you barely need to know like a developer because of plugins. We have published several articles and guides on optimizing a website (basically WordPress) and in this article you will get some free resources and ways to Test Your Website Performance.

 

Before we start the list of ways to Test Your Website Performance

 

If you are not sure how to make your website faster, please search with proper question or keywords in the search field on the top right of these webpage. Please understand this is not an article that describes how to make your website faster but says about the ways to Test Your Website Performance and their brief outlines.

 

List of  ways to Test Your Website Performance

 

 

Your own eyes : Quite obviously, if you test by loading on various browsers you can see if its loading fast or slower than the others. It is very crude way but gives the idea that how the visitor will feel.

 

webpagetest.org :  Google considers webpagetest.org as standard. We consider webpagetest.org that among the ways to Test Your Website Performance for Page Speed, this is the hardest and the best.

 

tools.pingdom.com :  It underestimates the speed, i.e. it will appear that your webpage is a bit faster than it is really is. It is still better among the others except  webpagetest.org . The Performance Grade tab gives good gradings to give you an idea where to work to make it more faster.

 

 websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ : Analysis and Recommendations can be helpful to many.

 

site-perf.com :   Underestimates the speed, i.e. it will appear that your webpage is a bit faster than it is really is, like pingdom. Test-points are quite good.

 

whichloadsfaster.com : Very good tool to compare two websites side by side.

 

PageSpeed Online by Google : Usually it will yield the same grade by number that of  webpagetest.org.

 

Browser Addons : For Firefox and Google Chrome, there are addons like Yahoo’s YSlow, Page Speed chrome extension etc.

 

Web Page Speed Checker WordPress Plugin :  It is WordPress Plugin which connects with Google Page Speed Online to check different optimization rules and test it with your blog address, alerts you with an email to fix any optimization issue, it has a widget that allows to show your PageSpeed Score on every page.

 

So, grossly these are the various ways to Test Your Website Performance. In our opinion, a webpage must score over 85 / 100 on  webpagetest.org  to consider it as optimized.

 

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