What are the best website speed profilers?

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Best website speed profilers	Price	Last Updated
-- Webpagetest	-	Sep 17, 2018
-- GTMetrix	-	Aug 24, 2018
-- Google Pagespeed Insights Online	-	Jul 30, 2017
-- MaxCDN Tools	-	Aug 21, 2014
-- performance.webmastersguard.com	-	Apr 6, 2017

Webpagetest

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The results of speed tests are incredibly detailed

You can dig deep into your results down to the root to find out what are the issues that are leading to your website being slow. There are a lot of options which you can select to narrow down your results namely timelines, content breakdowns, processing breakdowns and incredibly detailed performance reviews. See More

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Ability to select browsers for testing

If you'd like to go a step ahead of just speed profiling your site and see how not only how it performs but also how it appears on different browsers, Webpagetest would be the best option for you. Due to its vast range of browsers available (From IE7 to Chrome on Android or even Safari on iOS) See More

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Test your website from different locations

If your website serves visitors only from your own city or country. It'll be a good idea to speed test it using one of Webpagetest's servers in or near to your area. See More

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Speed Index Measurement

Provides an excellent user perception metric, Speed Index, of how much content above the scroll is completed quickly. See More

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Filmstrip

Can be set to provide a film strip of the page loading See More

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Free

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Can handle sites behind Basic Authentication

Often sites in development are protected behind basic auth See More

GTMetrix

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Provides a very detailed analysis report

Like all of its competitors GTMetrix also does provide an extremely detailed report of its findings, which include a really useful waterfall feature and the famous and extremely informative YSlow website speed grading as well. See More

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It's complete and it gives the best recommendations for improvement, not only for Google! See More

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Compare results with other websites

GTMetrix allows you to compare your site's speed reports with those of upto 4 other websites. See More

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Supports location based testing

GTMetrix.com have their servers in a number of countries, these give you the freedom to profile your website from the location where most of your traffic originates from See More

Google Pagespeed Insights Online

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Provides mobile pagespeed score as well

Considering the fact that a large fraction of people nowadays visit websites from mobile devices, it is very important that your site performs well on mobile browsers too. To help you with increasing your site's performance in the mobile arena, Google Page-speed has you covered, it'll test your site with respect to mobile platforms and provide you a detailed report of your current score and what you can do to improve it. See More

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No option for location of test

Even though Google's Pagespeed Insights does quite an amazing job as a speed profiler, currently it doesn't provide you with the option of analyzing your website from a specific location. See More

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Free

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Limited actionable data

Provides unhelpful instructions like "eliminate blocking JS", well duh, but what JS is blocking? Without a waterfall/HAR like the other's GPS is seriously lacking in usefulness. See More

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Provides a very detailed report of its findings

Once you test your website using Google pagespeed online, it not only gives you a score of how fast your website is, but also what you can do to improve it. These optimization tips can range from minifying assets and optimizing images to leveraging browser caching. Following these you could improve, not only your pagespeed score but also your rank in Google search results See More

performance.webmastersguard.com

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Website Speed Test by Pingdom

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Paid

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Scheduled automated speed tests

Can automatically run speed test on a schedule See More

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Provides additional features (Ping, DNS Health, Traceroute)

Sometimes, your website is not the only culprit causing an increase in load times, its in such cases that you might require to use features such as DNS Health or Traceroutes, to diagnose the problem. See More

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Allows you to choose locations from where to conduct tests

This option can be helpful particularly in cases where most of your traffic originates from a specific location See More

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Provides an intuitive UI and sufficient features

Pingdom's UI is extremely easy to understand both for beginners (just looking for their overall scores) or nerds looking for in-depth analysis of their pages. See More

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