The tool should also report website errors while evaluating performance. This includes client, server, and connection errors. And of course, these also come as separate tools for evaluation. Suggestions and recommendations are essential to making improvements to performance, so finding a tool that does this is key. Almost every tool comes with an option to download the performance report in an accessible format PDF, CSV, and so on.
This assists in sharing stats with your clients, employees, or work colleagues. Some tools also provide results in the form of graphs or charts. This tool provides advanced remote monitoring services that enable clients to increase the efficiency and improve performance of their e-business.
You can determine where in the world the site is experiencing problems, to better tailor your responses. PerfTool is a completely open source tool originally conceived as a project on popular software repository and web hosting service Github.
PerfTool is a client-side application that collects information about the website and then displays it. The reports it generates are very easy to read.
The benefit of PerfTool is that it combines three data sources into one. PerfTool offers over different indicators of performance, including such things as statistics on the page, recommendations, resource counts, loading times and errors in code.
You can test multiple pages simultaneously when you get the PageSpeed report. With this information, you can compare the current performance with past performances, or set a score benchmark. PerfTool is particularly useful if you are testing the entire site at once, as you do not have to test it page by page.
In addition to the Perftool, the developers at Devbridge also publish a style guide to help users create, share and automate visual library of their brand. KeyCDN offers a remarkably quick and light performance test with rich details. There are about 14 different locations to choose from, and you have the choice of making your results private or public. From the reports, you can see the number of HTTP requests made, the size of the requested page and the loading time, among others.
The tool is very responsive and also works on mobile phone. A CDN is a network of proxy servers and data centers distributed worldwide that offers high availability and performance in delivering services to customers.
They are used, for example, to ship software packages and games. TCP or Transmission Control Protocol is the set of protocols that govern how data packets are sent on the internet. The global network that KeyCDN uses inbuilt on IP Anycast and routing is highly latency-based, meaning there are a good performance, scalability, and speed. The network, as mentioned earlier, is ideal for games and software delivery, but also for ads, different kinds of websites and content management systems e.
The network of servers in the CDN is positioned to not only provide speed, availability, and scalability but also to ensure that page requests always go to the nearest point of presence.
The close the user is to the POP, the faster the page will load and the less data loss there will be. In this way, CDN helps to cut costs and promote scalability. With perks such as these in the overall network, it is no surprise that their website performance tool is so top-notch. The beauty of dotcom-monitor is that it provides testing from 25 different locations and on seven different browsers.
You can even run all global tests at the same time. With other tools, you can only run them individually from each location. Once the test has been done, you can choose individual reports for a waterfall breakdown analysis. The reports come in five sections: a summary, the performance, the waterfall chart, host analysis, and errors.
Due to the interface being so easy to use, all the information is in readily understood. Through its quality reports, dotcom-monitor allows you to see which elements of your website are slow or missing, and it presents you with the loading time by browser of all page elements. The service is completely free and even allows testing through cloud services e. The team at dotcom-monitor are constantly developing new tools so it seems like the tool will be able to do even more.
The reports also provide a breakdown by host, as mentioned earlier. On top of all that, the tool lets you check for errors and diagnostics. This lets you diagnose errors even faster. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based dotcom-monitor is currently working on a new load testing platform to provide users with even more functionality.
Developed by Patrick Sexton the man behind local listing service Moz Local , Varvy Pagespeed Optimization is a tool that provides reports in five sections. Using all this information, the site provides a graphical representation of what can be optimized e. One entire section of the Pagespeed site is dedicated to SEO, and there are countless useful tips on how to make your site more SEO friendly.
Sexton does a great job of offering documentation on how to optimize websites, and Varvy is more a set of tutorials than an outright service. The tutorials include lessons on critical rendering paths, using browser caching and deferring JavaScript loading.
There is also instruction on reducing server response times, enabling compression, enabling keep-alive, minimizing redirects, prioritizing visible content, optimizing CSS delivery, CDNs, avoiding bad requests, deferring JavaScript, minimizing DNS lookups, and much, much more. If you are new to the webperf website performance world, there are few better places to start than Varvy. One of the best aspects of the service is its mobile optimization guide.
Ever since Google increased the strength of the mobile-friendly ranking signal in May , there has been greater emphasis placed on mobile site accessibility.
To ensure that your site stays competitive in the smartphone, you should definitely go through the Varvy tutorial on mobile optimization. PageScoring is simple and easy-to-use tool with minimalistic design.
With its reports, you can see the overall loading time and also domain lookups, page sizes, download times, redirection times and connection times. You can also see all your assets i. If your goal is to check your website's performance in a quick and painless manner, then PageScoring is probably your best bet.
Like websites themselves, these performance tools will be judged on how quickly they work. PageScoring allows you to just enter the domain name and then quickly provides a richly detailed display of how long the contents took to load, as well as a report on various transmission processes.
It is a great tool for measuring performance in real-time and in such a manner that isolates pieces of data to improve analysis and improvement measures. The Pagescoring interface is probably the most bare bones on this list. If you visit the link below, all you see is an address bar, literally three sentences, and a feedback button.
But do not let appearances fool you. Another quick-and-easy tool is the Sucuri Load Time Tester. Based on worldwide network of hardware support and testing, Sucuri gives your site a global rating from A to F. It measures how long a user takes to connect to your site and how long it takes one page to load fully. An important thing to remember is that the use of a CDN will likely affect the operation of the tool. With a CDN, the connection time is likely to be low.
You will not get much use of this tool in terms of performance if your TTFB and total time are not already on the low side. In addition to performance testing, Sucuri also provides web security and protection, back up tools, and firewalls with detection. Anycast is an addressing and routing method for networks in which data is sent to a node in the network based on proximity, cost, health and other measures. What this means is that there are high availability and redundancy built into the network, which helps in case there is network failure.
As an added plus, you do not need to install anything to use Sucuri. All you need is a change in DNS, which their team will help you set up. The tool is so good, in fact, that many of the other tools on this list merely present information taken from PageSpeed. The service grades your site from 1 to , with anything above 85 considered to be good. There are desktop and mobile versions of the tool. PageSpeed measures two things—the time to above-the-fold load i. On mobile reports, there is also a User Experience tool that you the score along with viewport configuration, appropriate font sizes, and sizes for tap targets like buttons and links.
A new speed test tool within the Think With Google service presents all this information in an attractive manner.
In addition to its desktop and mobile versions, PageSpeed has a Chrome Extension which allows you to test any page from the Developers Page Speed tab.
Overall, Google PageSpeed Insights gives you a wholesome picture of the site speed and what you need to do to improve it. Because the tool belongs to Google, you can be sure that it is constantly being improved upon. The tools analyze a web page and tell you it performed in relation to Yahoo! There are three steps in the process with which YSlow tests a site.
It then gets information about each element. Finally, it takes the information and generates grades for each of the rules, resulting in an overall grade. They were designed by Yahoo! YSlow uses 23 of these rules in its testing. Because it works to drive long-term value on a web project.
Instead, you continually monitor performance and react to the data. Your website looks good — but how are visitors using it?
As a web designer, you must hold yourself accountable to data. How are people actually moving through your site? The best websites contribute to the digital marketing funnel. Hotjar gives you metrics for monitoring the journey people are taking through your website — and if your intended path is working. While Hotjar is more cost-effective with their Basic and Plus plans, the con is that it measures only a sample of your web visitors.
If your budget allows, invest in Crazy Egg , a bulked out version of Hotjar that comprehensively records how each visitor interacts with your website. With a handful of tools, you can answer: What are visitors clicking?
When are they bouncing? How far down the page are they scrolling? Which elements drive the most conversions? You can also highlight which usability errors are holding people up, to ensure a smooth pathway through your digital funnel. Ever wish you could just ask someone what they really think of your website, instead of relying on percentages and click rates? Usability Hub is a great way to engage with a neutral audience of website visitors. You pay a small fee to the service to get real, human feedback on usability.
We gathered the data and analyzed word clouds of the most common responses. This showed us that one banner version clearly stood out as the best user experience. Data backed up an assumption we had made, and helped us convince the client that a redesign was necessary. You can set up your own test on Usability Hub easily. Try asking questions about the clarity of your site, or how compelling your design and copy is.
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