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6 Tools for Page Load Testing – New Google Ranking Factor

April 12, 2010 by Manoj Jasra 2 Comments

The Google Webmaster blog has officially stated that page load time is now a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. Even though they state that page load time only affects less than 1% of queries, this is still 1% of 100+ billion searches a month. Below are a few tools to help you test your site’s page load time more effectively.

  • Page Speed, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
  • YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
  • WebPagetest shows a waterfall view of your pages’ load performance plus an optimization checklist.
  • In Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world as in the chart below. We’ve also blogged about site performance.
  • Pingdom Tools: Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.
  • Webpage Analyzer: Their script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component

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Comments

  1. Thomas B says

    January 3, 2013 at 8:14 am

    Nice blog post and Pingdom tools are one of many great products out there. Can’t over-egg enough the importance of speed testing – not only from an SEO perspective but from a user experience.

    Nice alternative is StatusCake.com’s tool which allows you to simply enter the URL and then chose the location you want the website to be tested from. Quick, easy-to-use and free! 🙂 https://www.statuscake.com/tools/

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    • Angela Wilkinson says

      January 3, 2013 at 12:45 pm

      Thanks for the alternative tool!

      Reply

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