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Website Load Test Online

Your website’s performance is one of the most important indicators that you should test from time to time. How fast your site loads not only affects the visitors on your site but also your search ranking as well. Google and other search engines want to send users to sites that load fast because it leads to a great user experience. There are a number of tools to help you figure out your website’s load time and in this article, we’ll look at the top tools that you can use for a website load test online.

Pingdom

Pingdom is one of the leading tools that has been available for quite some time now. It’s free to use with a limited account but you can do more with a paid account.

To get started using Pingdom, visit their website here and enter your URL. Then choose where you want to test from. Pingdom gives you the option of testing your website from a number of geographical areas that way you get a good idea how your users are seeing your website from wherever they are.

When you do a test, Pingdom breaks down the results into a detailed dashboard showing you what elements of your site are dragging down your site’s load time. They’ve done a great job of making their tool useful by both experts and beginners alike.

Pingdom Website Speed Test

Google PageSpeed Insights

Google has shown its commitment to improving website load speed by providing a free tool that web owners can use to gauge the speed of their site. Pagespeed analyses the output of your website, tests the load time and then gives you suggestions to improve performance.

PageSpeed Insights tests the mobile and desktop views separately so that you can see where you’re having issues. At the end of the test you’ll get a fairly explanatory list of things you need to improve on, ranging from optimizing images to loading scripts in such a way that these scripts don’t delay the rest of the site.

Google Page Insights

Load Impact

Load Impact takes things a little further. It allows you to test for concurrent users on your website and this gives you a deeper understanding of how much your website can handle. It’s one thing for your site to load fast with one user but quite another to support a number of people at the same time. This is an especially important test if you run an e-commerce store where you could potentially be processing a number of transactions at the same time.

Load Impact has in-depth customizations for developers where developers can create and run their own tests and get more tailored results through their Open Source platform.

Load Impact

GTMetrix

One of the more basic options available is GTMetrix. I personally use this for quick testing when creating websites for myself or clients. GTMetrix is broken down into two key factors, page speed score and Yslow score. When you copy and paste in a URL it will display how you’re doing for various factors and what needs to be improved.

GTMetrix

Conclusion

If you’re running a website, you should schedule load tests every so often to make sure your site is performing at it’s best. In this article, we’ve looked at some of the leading solutions that you can use.

The biggest reasons why sites are slow are usually related to caching and image optimization. Now, there are a number of other factors such as your host, type of website content, ect. However, in reality, the WP Rocket plugin and ShortPixel image optimization plugin can alleviate almost all issues for normal WordPress websites.

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