Smart Traffic SEO Tip #42 – Some Free Tools That Can Be Used to Evaluate the Speed of your site
Site Performance (in Webmaster tools)
•This tool shows the performance statistics of your site, displaying a graph of the combined speed numbers for the website which are based on pages that are most frequently visited. It tells you the average load time and your site’s speed compared to other sites on the web which will then serve you as a basis of how your site performs.
Page Speed
•Is a Firebug plug-in capable of analysing the performance of your webpages and give suggestions on how to improve your site.
•This plug-in provides a grade relating to the overall speed of your site.
WebPagetest
•This will test your URL and shows a waterfall diagram and charts of your pages’ load performance plus recommendations on the optimisation of your webpage.
•A good tool since it also provides the estimated time after your site has been fully loaded.
