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6 Options Considered

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Google Pagespeed Insights Online
Jul 30, 2017
Webpagetest
Apr 7, 2017
GTMetrix
Apr 7, 2017
MaxCDN Tools
Aug 21, 2014
performance.webmastersguard.com
Apr 6, 2017
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Google Pagespeed Insights Online

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Abdullah
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Provides mobile pagespeed score as well

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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...
George Favvas
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Free

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Abdullah
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Provides a very detailed report of its findings

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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 improv...
Abdullah
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No option for location of test

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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.
Jon Brown
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Limited actionable data

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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.
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Webpagetest

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Abdullah
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The results of speed tests are incredibly detailed

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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 performan...
Abdullah
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Ability to select browsers for testing

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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)
Abdullah
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Test your website from different locations

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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.
Jon Brown
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Speed Index Measurement

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

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Can be set to provide a film strip of the page loading
Jon Brown
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Free

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Jon Brown
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Can handle sites behind Basic Authentication

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Often sites in development are protected behind basic auth
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GTMetrix

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Abdullah
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Provides a very detailed analysis report

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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.
Abdullah
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Supports location based testing

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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
Abdullah
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Compare results with other websites

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

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Burak
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Comparison

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It enables you compare performance for two domains, great for testing different environments or seeing how your site does against a competitor.
Abdullah
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Test ping speeds from different locations

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You can see by what margins your results vary when your website's ping is tested from 2 different locations, you can then compare your results with those of your competitors.
Abdullah
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Only for testing pings

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Does not provide much of a detailed report, of how your website performed. But again, MaxCDN Tools, as the site's slogan says - is more of a Ping testing and comparison service than a full fledged website speed profiler.
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performance.webmastersguard.com

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Markus Huber
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Simple

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Website Speed Test by Pingdom

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Jon Brown
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Scheduled automated speed tests

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Can automatically run speed test on a schedule
Abdullah
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Provides additional features (Ping, DNS Health, Traceroute)

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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.
Abdullah
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Allows you to choose locations from where to conduct tests

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This option can be helpful particularly in cases where most of your traffic originates from a specific location
Abdullah
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Provides an intuitive UI and sufficient features

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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.
Jon Brown
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Paid

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