Best Tools for Testing Website Speed & Performance

Google has ratcheted up the importance of website download time and ranks it higher than other factors such as how easy a site is to use. For more qualified traffic, make sure your site is fast.

“53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load.”
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Test your site with Pingdom.

And Google’s Lighthouse which will also evaluate your site based on SEO, coding best practices, accessibility, and mobile. Download the extension.

These are arguably the 2 best tools for evaluating the performance of your website. If your site is slow or underperforming, learn more about how to optimize the speed of your website.