Monitor Your Wordpress Site speed With This Free Tools

October 19, 2012

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Hello and welcome to Our first Article in the new series ” How To Speed Your wordpress Sites” in this series we will try our best to deliver quality info and tutorials and tips about Speeding up wordpress blog in easy steps that can be used in any blog website powered with wordpress.

The first article is about ” How to monitor wordpress site speed using some Free tools and plugins” no one can deny that the site speed is essential factor for any successful website, After Google reviled that they are taking the site speed in consideration for ranking in The most popular search engine and people rush to tools and tips to make their site more speedy .but before we optimize our sites we need to check the site speed first or monitor them to know whats slow down your site to take care of it in the future and avoid being slow.In this Article we include a collection of useful web service,tools and plugins that will help you to diagnose and analyze you site, allowing you to understand your site better.

Web Services To monitor Your Website speed

Pingdom

pingdom website speed monitor

Free web service that’s allow you to monitor your site speed and uptime of your hosting, Test the load time of all Website elements such as (html, images, Javascript, css, iframes etc) and how long it takes to download this Object and how to reduce this time by simple steps.The service includes statistics for uptime and response time, and can send out alerts via SMS, email, and more.

Google Analytics

Google analytics is a free service provided by the search engine company , Google which provides the website owners with different statistics and information regarding the performance of their website.if you are familiar with Google analytics dashboard you can find “Site Speed” section under content tab, In this section Google gives you rough idea about the average page load times of your site pages also other Loads times such as”Avg. Redirection Time, Domain Lookup Time, Server Connection Time,Server Response Time and Page Download Time”

GTmetrix

GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users.This service comes with two option ” Free and Premium” Based on some famous tools such as ” Google Page Speed, Firefox performance add-ons , Yslow (Yahoo), Firebug and Net Export”

Neustar Website Performance

This free website performance monitor include two option to chose from first Website Monitoring “Externally monitor your website to see what customers see. Be alerted when your site is unavailable or pages load slowly.” and Website Load Testing “Test site traffic capacity, identify bottlenecks and be ready to launch new applications.”

Yahoo YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team has identified 34 rules that affect web page performance. YSlow’s web page analysis is based on the 23 of these 34 rules that are testable. Click each performance rule below to see the details.

Show Slow

Show Slow is an open source tool that helps monitor various website performance metrics over time. It captures the results of YSlow, Page Speed, WebPageTest and dynaTrace AJAX Edition rankings and graphs them, to help you understand how various changes to your site affect its performance.

Load Impact

Loadimpact allows us to check out how many users can be handled at a time by your website without affecting its loading speed. Its free account allows you to check the loading impact of 50 simulated users.

Gomez

Gomez allows us to conduct the real time performance test for a webpage from an external node location. In report it displays the DNS look-up time, connection time, first byte, content download and Redirect Time.

searchmetrics Tool

The website speedometer 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.

Web Tool Hub

Gives you the option to understand how your page is loading with different visitor’s Internet connection speeds. With Webtoolhub you will get information about page size, loading time with different Internet connection speeds and will get information about all Css, Javascript and Images that are used on page. Nothing more nothing less: all that you need for basic page speed test.

IWebTool

Iwebtool gives you the option to compare up to ten pages in same time. You also can check homepage, categories or posts loading time with just one click.