Today, website speed is more important than ever. If you have a slower website, you can count on having a bad user experience and a lower search engine ranking because of it.
Whether you want to test your website’s speed or get recommendations, here are ten free website speed tools that can help you:
Aptimize
While this report can take up to 10 minutes to create, don’t let this scare you away from this valuable free tool. Aptimize will send you an email once the test is complete, and inside this report, you will be able to view multiple loading-time tests, details and even a letter grade for each section.
FreeSpeedTest
FreeSpeedTest isn’t filled with a bunch of features like most speed-testing websites; it gets straight to the point. The great thing about this tool is that it will test your speed using multiple data centers spread across the world, allowing you to know how your fast your website loads in other countries.
iWebtools
This simple and accurate speed test will let you compare your speeds with up to 10 competitors.
Neustar
What sets Neustar above the rest is that it can actually monitor your website based on your preferences. That way, if something were to happen, you would get an alert. Aside from this unique feature, Neustar will help you understand why your website is loading slowly and help you remove any barriers that are bogging your website down.
PageSpeed Insights
Created by Google, PageSpeed Insights will analyze your website in less than 30 seconds. In its report, it will offer recommendations, show a speed score and give you links to tutorials on how you can fix your issues. If Google is offering these recommendations, you better fix it right away.
Rapid Search Metrics
This simple tool can be very valuable if you’re looking for a bit more than your website’s loading time. Rapid Search Metrics offers an in-depth analysis, a load time estimate based on different connections and separate reports for your CSS files, images and more.
Website Goodies
If you want a report that is created within seconds, then this tool is more than enough. Website Goodies will simply generate your loading time on the screen and nothing else.
WebSiteOptimization
This free tool offers an in-depth look at your website’s speed, along with recommendations on how you can actually improve your loading times. Some additional features include a global report, calculating object sizes, exact loading times, a speed report and recommendations.
WebToolHub
WebToolHub gives you two options: simple and advanced. In the simple mode, it will test your loading time and website speed using various servers in the world. In the advanced mode, the tool will analyze the speeds and check every element of your website.
Yslow
Created by Yahoo!, Yslow analyzes web pages and will show you hundreds of ways to improve your website’s speed. Inside a report, you will be able to view your grade, suggestions, a summary, statistics about that page and tools to help your website load a lot more faster. Aside from the tools, Yslow created 23 guides to make your website a lot more efficient and faster.
