Review of website performance test tools
Testing your website’s performance was always important, as users will not hang around whilst they wait for your website to load. A slow website is now becoming even more of an issue with the news that Google may take this into account when deciding where your website should rank.
These site performance testing tools aim to make it easy to regularly test and check your website’s performance so that you can then carry out remedial action in order to speed up the time it takes to load each page.
Websiteoptimization.com
A free web-based tool, which calculates page load time, the composition of the page and makes recommendations on how to improve page load time. |
YSlow
Is a free Firefox add-on that analyzes page load times and can suggest ways of making improvements to the page’s performance. |
Webmetrics
A robust and scalable platform that provides performance monitoring and metrics for the broadest range of websites, internet applications and services. |
OctaGate SiteTimer
A free tool that calculates the time it takes a page to load. |
AlertSite
Performance monitoring that tests your web site URLs as often as every minute and alerts you page errors or performance problems occur. Now combined with Google Analytics so you can see how performance impacts on user behaviour. |
Pagetest
Where web pages go to get fast. Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist. |
ip-label.newtest
ip-label.newtest offers its Datametrie and Newtest suites to audit and measure the performance of your IT applications. ip-label.newtest can provide solutions for all your digital services: business applications, internet applications, voice, mobile or television over IP. ip-label.newtest, with its twenty-strong R&D team, is constantly enhancing its range of products and services to keep pace with technological trends: integration of web 2.0 technology, web services, BlackBerry, and more. |
Website Speed Tester
The website speedtester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP. |
TelQA Test
TelQA Performance Testing Software Are your web users complaining about slow response times, site lock-ups, failed logins, corrupted data or other performance related problems? If web based performance issues mean that you are losing website customers, failing to deliver a product on-time, or unable to determine the scalability of your web application, download TelQA Test and see how performance testing can help you determine the performance of your website during development, deployment and maintenance. Download an evaluation version of TelQA Test to begin solving your performance problems. |
WebWait
* WebWait is a website timer. * Use WebWait to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection. * Timing is accurate because WebWait pulls down the entire website into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools ignore. |
WebWalk
Are your end-users getting the performance they need out of your web-based applications? Measuring the performance of the infrastructure components underlying your web-based application may not guarantee that the application is performing to end-user expectations. |
Which Loads Faster?
whichloadsfaster is a fun way to spread the word that web performance matters. It’s about friendly competition and about testing in everybody’s browser, not just ones that have nice performance tools already. |
Keynote Kite
KITE tests the performance of your site by collecting data about the specific site transactions from test locations worldwide. KITE is free and it’s the one tool that you’ll use like a Swiss Army knife for real-time testing, diagnosing and troubleshooting of Web performance issues. |
