11 Free Tools to Test the Speed of your Website

As bloggers, the time it takes to load a page or website is one of the most important things to consider as it is one of the keys to keep the readers from constantly visiting your site. A website that loads 1-5 seconds is already acceptable and will not keep your visitors from waiting longer. If your website has a slow loading time, the users will not wait anymore and will prefer to jump into another website and will look for its content.

To avoid that to happen, you may try to use these free and open source tools that could test the performance and speed of your website. These tools will give you an overview as well as recommendations on how you could improve the response time of your website. Check them out!

aptimize

aptimize
Aptimize is a simple tool that increases the performance of a website. It doubles the speed of the website and intranets without the need for code changes.
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FreeSpeedTest

Free Speed Test
FreeSpeedTest is the leading tool in measuring the speed of Internet connections and load time of the web page.
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Pingdom Tools

Pingdom Tools
Pingdom Tools is one of the most popular and accurate tools in testing the loading speed of your website.
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BrowserMob

Browsermob
BrowserMob is a low-cost tool for load testing and website monitoring.
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WebToolHub

webtoolhub
WebToolHub is a tool that analyzes and shows you loading time and speed of the website on different internet connections.
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site-perf

site-perf
Site-perf is a free tool in checking the performance of a website. It emulates natural browser behaviour and ables to download your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files.
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WebSiteOptimization

WebSiteOptimization
WebSiteOptimization is a tool that provides a descriptive analysis of the loading time of your website and how it could be improved and load faster.
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Webslug

webslug
Webslug analyses the performance of a website. It measures the time it takes for a page to fully load.
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iWEBTOOL

iwebtool
iWEBTOOL ables you to check the speed of 10 different websites at the same time.
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LinkVendor

LinkVendor
LinkVendor is a tool that shows how long a website takes to load.
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WEBinspect

web inspect
WEB-inspect shows the loading time of your website on a certain Internet connection.
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