{"id":362,"date":"2014-05-14T01:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.knownhost.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2023-03-09T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:02:01","slug":"5-tools-check-website-load-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/blog\/5-tools-check-website-load-time\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tools to Verify Your Website Is Loading Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Updated February 6, 2020<\/h2>\n<p>We have outlined the importance of website loading time throughout our articles and explained the benefits from having a fast website. In this article we will demonstrate 5 tools that can help you check your website\u2019s performance and speed score and identify the areas that need to be improved.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is page speed important?<\/h2>\n<p>First of all let\u2019s be reminded why page speed matters. In a nutshell, web page loading speed is important because faster websites have the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 They\u00a0provide a better user experience<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 They\u00a0make more sales<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 They\u00a0are better in terms of SEO<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 They\u00a0have more conversion rates (ad clicks, newsletter signups etc)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 They\u00a0enjoy a lower bounce rate and more page views<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the magic number?<\/h2>\n<p>A common question that many people ask is what the magic number is, in other words how many seconds is considered good? Anything less than 3 seconds is considered good, anything between 3-5 seconds is average and anything above that needs improvement.<\/p>\n<h2>How do you improve your page loading time?<\/h2>\n<p>The tools we will see below is your starting point in the quest to make your websites load faster. They will identify the areas that need improvement and in some cases they will also make suggestions on how to correct the situation. In general web page speed can be improved by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 <\/b>Moving\u00a0to a faster server<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Moving\u00a0from traditional VPS hosting to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/managed-vps\">SSD VPS hosting<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Optimizing\u00a0your images<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Using\u00a0browser caching<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Minifying\u00a0the HTML and Java script<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Optimizing\u00a0the code<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Removing\u00a0unnecessary loading scripts<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Utilizing\u00a0a content delivery network for images and videos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>5 free tools to check website load time<\/h2>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/pagespeed\/insights\/\">Google PageSpeed Insights<\/a><\/b> \u2013 A tool by Google which checks your website performance in both mobile and desktop and assigns a score out of 100. The tool makes specific suggestions for the areas that need to be improved and also makes recommendations on how to improve them.<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy to use and the only thing you have to do is enter the URL you want to test and click the ANALYZE button. As a general rule of thumb you should aim for a score above 90\/100 for the desktop version.<\/p>\n<p>Have in mind that this is the score Google is using in their ranking algorithm and this is also the tool used to take measurements for reporting purposes in Google Analytics. In the majority of the cases the google page speed tool is all you need to investigate and improve your web site\u2019s loading time.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/fpt\/\">Pingdom Website speed test<\/a><\/b> \u2013 A very nice tool by Pingdom which gives you details on how long it takes for each and every website component to load. This is particularly useful when you want to identify which particular components are slowing your website down.<\/p>\n<p>Another useful feature of pingdom is that is tells you the load time of your website, the total page size and how your website performs compared to other tested websites.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpagetest.org\/\">Webpagetest.org<\/a><\/b> \u2013 This is similar to pingdom but with the added advantage that you can select the test location and test browser. This comes handy when your target audience is in a different location than you, since you have the opportunity to run tests bases on their locations, connection speeds and browser versions.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/gtmetrix.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">GTmetrix<\/a><\/b> \u2013 Gtmetrix is another tool that provides you with recommendations based on a number of things they check during the test. In addition, it also gives you the ability to compare the performance of up to 4 urls, to download the results in a nice PDF report and it also keeps history of the different tests to measure progress or identify any serious changes that occur to your website speed from the last runs.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yslow\/\">Yahoo YSlow<\/a><\/b> \u2013 A tool from the Yahoo Developer Network. Unlike the rest of the tools, this is not an online service but you have to install it as a browser extension in order to use it. If you are using Chrome for example, the YSlow is available as a chrome app in the Chrome Store. Once you install it you can run in on any website and get similar recommendations as with the rest of the tools.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>It is important to optimize your website and make it load less than 3 seconds. This is not an easy process especially for the not so technical people. The five tools outlined above can help you identify what is causing the delay and in the majority of the cases they also tell you what you need to do in to order to correct the problems. For best results you can use all 5 tools but if you are running short of time then start from the top of the list and work your way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated February 6, 2020 We have outlined the importance of website loading time throughout our articles and explained the benefits from having a fast website. In this article we will demonstrate 5 tools that can help you check your website\u2019s performance and speed score and identify the areas that need to be improved. 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