Comments on: 10 Free Tools to Check Website Loading Time

By: ravi

ravi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:01:13 +0000

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

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:14:10 +0000

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

By: Simran

Simran — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:47:46 +0000

you have a nice list. which one is best out of these ? Simrans last blog post..5 Best Free Antivirus Softwares To Protect Your PC Against Viruses

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:39:29 +0000

@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?

By: tal galili

tal galili — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:20:23 +0000

@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

By: Raju

Raju — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:31:34 +0000

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

By: tal galili

tal galili — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:00:58 +0000

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 tal galilis last blog post..Renana Raz: Choreographing Israeli Culture and Beyond (Podcast)

By: techniqueal t.

techniqueal t. — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:50:30 +0000

personally, i think website optimization is the best! wonderful list my friend. dugg! techniqueal t.s last blog post..Top and Best Posts of "The Technical Thought Of You" for 2008

By: Shirley - Velvet Blues

Shirley - Velvet Blues — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:34:58 +0000

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. Shirley - Velvet Bluess last blog post..Is Your Search Engine Optimization Expert Legit?

By: stratosg

stratosg — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:46:58 +0000

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