How can I test the speed of my web page?

In a frenetic world like the current one, where we want everything immediately, it is important to know how fast our Web page loads; It is estimated that users or potential customers lose interest if the page they are viewing takes more than 3 seconds to display... it is very little time, so you should have your site optimized as best as possible.

In this article we present some tools that allow you to measure the loading speed of your site, this knowledge will allow you to improve your page.

Load speed measurement tools

Currently there are several pages available that offer this type of service, both free and paid, you should know that there are also companies specialized in measuring this type of metric. we have evaluated the following:

PageSpeed ??Insights [Google]

This tool from the internet giant is free to use; just place the URL of your page to quickly obtain a load speed result among other statistics.

As you can see, many times the measurements will not give good results; but this is not something to worry about, it is a tool that allows us to evaluate where we should improve.

GTmetrix

This tool is developed by the Canadian company Carbon60; this company specializes in cloud services, so they must have good knowledge of the subject.

The tool takes some time to do the analysis, keep in mind that the server that does the test is in Canada, so the results may take extra time.

The results offer useful information such as the weight of the page, redirects, among other information that, if we know how to analyze it, can give us a guide on which fields to improve.

Pingdom Website Speed ??Test

This tool offers free trials, and also the option to make more complete measurements with your paid service; Among its advantages is being able to choose the geographical location of the server that will perform the test, this will allow us to know how our page behaves in different parts of the world.

Below, image with part of the results given by this tool for the site we are evaluating; The paid version of this tool is around USD$10 per month, and they offer a 14-day free trial.

As you can see, data such as the loading time, the weight of the page and the calls made by it are offered; the captured image corresponds only to a small part of the analysis performed on the URL.

UPTRENDS

This company is dedicated to monitoring Web pages, so they specialize in this field of metric measurement.

The differentiating element of this tool is the possibility of testing both from different servers and devices, which makes it an excellent candidate for our mobile tests.

The free test was run, which offers a lot of useful information on the performance of our page, this company also offers a payment plan for a much more complete service, the plans start at USD$15 per month in its "Starter" plan.

Among the results presented is the analysis of the images and the loading and execution times of the codes on our page.

CONCLUSION

In the world of "immediacy" it will always be important to offer our products and services as quickly as possible, for this example in particular knowing the loading time of our website.

Knowing these metrics allows us to optimize our loading times, and to know where the bottleneck is generated for users who want to see the information we want to provide them; If you have a page with high traffic, do not rule out hiring a company that specializes in carrying out this type of measurement in the near future, as they will allow you to improve your page and increase user perception.

Whenever you create a website, use this type of tool to find out its access speed and possible elements to improve.