5 services for testing the speed of your site

The speed of loading the site plays a huge role in user experience. On the web there are some interesting tools that let you test the speed of your sites, some of them will even tell you who and how much time an item is loaded or to advise what should I do to speed up the site ...

Here are a few free online services to test the speed of your site, and to get better results, perform the test with two or more services for each case.

1     Google Page Speed ​​Online

Web service for Google, which ranks the speed of loading your site from 1 to 100 and thus gives you tips on what you need to optimize to have a faster site. The tool can be accessed through the website or you can install as add-on Firebug in Chrome and Firefox.

.         Pingdom Tools

This free tool for testing your site will allow you to see which element (images, JavaScript-and, CSS ...) how long is loaded. Additionally inform how many items are loaded and what is the size of the site.

3.       Webpage Test

A tool that tests the speed of your site while allowing you to set the parameters as browsers, internet connection speed and choose different locations around the world.

4.       BrowserMob

Another excellent and free tool for testing your site besides the speed, displays additional useful data for the site as the total size of files and number of objects.