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10 Free Tools to Check Website Loading Time

Wed, Feb 11, 2009

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Everyone knows how annoying it can be having to deal with websites that take forever to load. As per some recent researches, almost 75% of the Internet users do not return to sites that take longer than four seconds to load. A Fast loading website is the first step to a successful online presence, but you will be surprised how many scripts and widgets may be slowing your site to a crawl.

10 Free Tools to Check the Website Loading Time

1. iWebTool Speed Test
- Simple tool to test your website’s loading time and compare with other websites. great tool for benchmarking. It allows you to enter up to 10 websites, and the results display the size of the website, the total loading time and the average speed per KB.

iwebtool speed test

2. Pingdom Tools
- Pingdom is a popular uptime performance monitoring service for websites and servers. They also host a free load time test for web pages. The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes) and displays the load time of all objects visually with time bars. Also see the statistics like the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.

Pingdom load test

3. Internet Supervision Webserver Monitoring Tool
- InternetSupervision.com monitors the availability, performance, and content of your website, web server and internet services from across the globe. If you ever wanted to know how much time it takes to load your website from different locations in the world, this is the tool for you.

Internet Supervision website tool

4. Webslug Loading Time Test
- Webslug measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made. The main benefit of Webslug is that it doesn’t require any download or any program to be installed. Just enter your website’s address and it’s all done in your browser.

webslug loading time comparison

5. OctaGate Site Timer
- Very similar to Pingdom Tools

Octagate site timer

6. Site-Perf.com
- Though this looks similar to Pingdom tool, it goes a step further by letting you decide the test server location and Max threads per host value. Very good and very accurate!

site-perf analysis

7. LinkVendor Website Speed Check

- 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.

linkvendor speed test

8. Website Optimization – Web Page analyzer

- The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates the latest best practices from Website Optimization Secrets, web page size guidelines and trends, and web site optimization techniques into its recommendations.

website optimization tool

9. Uptrends Web Page test tool

- The full page test tool allows you to test the load time and speed of a complete HTML page of your website, including all objects such as images, frames, CSS stylesheets, Flash objects, RSS feeds, and Javascript files. The full HTML page test tool will analyze the page and download all the objects, displaying the corresponding load times, the object sizes, and which objects are missing, including content from third party suppliers such as advertisements. With the full HTML page test tool you will be able to analyze in detail which object slows down your web page, and how to optimize your website. The load time of all objects is visualized with time bars.

Uptrends page load tool

10. WebWait

- WebWait is a website timer. You can 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.

webwait  loading time test

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24 Comments For This Post

  1. TechnoSamrat Says:

    wow really a very useful post for all webmasters!!

  2. Rishi Says:

    Hey, pretty useful tools and a great read. Thanks for the share.

  3. Rockstar sid Says:

    A exhaustive list!! Loved it…

  4. Nihar Says:

    Hey man, nice list. I checked my site. It took 2.04 seconds. Is that bad?

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  5. Raju Says:

    @Rishi, Sid, Samrat,
    Thanks guys!!

    @Nihar,
    It depends on which site you used to test. If its overall site load time, its great, if its just html loading time then its good :)

  6. Madhur Kapoor Says:

    Nice collection buddy. Stumbled

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  7. Raju Says:

    @Madhur,
    Thanks :) welcome to TechPP :)

  8. Donace | The Nexus Says:

    sweet list stumbled and acquired for later use ;)

  9. venkat Says:

    @Raju you covered almost all tools to know about website laoding time ,very useful for bloggers thanks for sharing

  10. binaryday Says:

    Great collection of tools man…stumbled.

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  11. stratosg Says:

    very very nice list Raju! i knew some but i found out about some really neat ones!

  12. Shirley - Velvet Blues Says:

    Great tools. I am a big fan of the web page analyzer by WebsiteOptimization.com. But I definitely like the site comparison that you can easily do with that iWebTool test.

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  13. techniqueal t. Says:

    personally, i think website optimization is the best!

    wonderful list my friend. dugg!

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  14. tal galili Says:

    Hi there

    I wish to discover how different settings effect my website loading time.
    After checking a few of the tools you described here, I realized that every test is “noisy”, in the sense that if I run it a second later I might get a different response time.

    I thought of trying to overcome this by running multiple tests on the blog loading time in one setting, and then changing the settings and running another set of loading time tests, and then comparing the two stacks of loading time numbers (I guess a simple t test will do – I am a statistician, so the data analysis part will be the easy part).

    I need your advice in:
    1) finding a way to automatically run multiple loading time tests. (instead of me manually using one of the tools listed above tens of times)
    and
    2) if you have any response to the general idea I proposed here.

    Thanks,
    Tal

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  15. Raju Says:

    @Tal,
    Infact the last one in the last (http://webwait.com/) does exactly that. Check that and let me know if that helps.

  16. tal galili Says:

    @Raju,
    Thanks for the comment,
    The problem with the last service is that it gives the mean loading time, but doesn’t give the raw numbers (or standard errors) of the sample of loading time.
    What this means, is that when I’ll try to compare two settings, I couldn’t know if one is faster then the other “for real” or “by chance”.

    Any idea how to get the raw list of numbers ?

    Thanks :)
    Tal

  17. Raju Says:

    @tal,
    I am not sure what you are looking for. None of the service can be so much accurate, lot of factors influence the loading speed, like number of concurrent users (at the time of testing), load on the server (if shared hosting) etc., I suggest you to make changes to your settings, run the test a few times, take the mean time and then again change the settings and repeat the process. Its just one time activity, you don’t need to optimize your site everyday right?

  18. Simran Says:

    you have a nice list. which one is best out of these ?

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  19. Michael Mahemoff Says:

    I’ve recently upgraded WebWait, partly in response to some email converesation with @tal, and one of the enhancements is providing raw data.

  20. ravi Says:

    you have a nice list. which one is best out of these ?

  21. Australian Bookshop Says:

    great list. I really liked the webwait interface. I found it the easiest to use.

  22. Shahab khan Says:

    Pretty nice tools Raju!
    I like Pingdom tool the most!

  23. Rao Says:

    I tried to test an intranet site and none of these worked for me. May be webwait to certain extent with JS errors and incorrect load time. I have site relative paths for all the page resources. Is there any tool which works for intranet sites ?

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