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Every Web Performance Test Tool

swyx on March 17, 2020

Here is every Web Performance Test Tool I know of to help identify issues in your site/get you some key speed metrics. The idea is you think of a f...
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Jean-Philippe Chateau β€’

Thank you for sharing those tools! Personnaly I use GTmetrix a lot with Google Lighthouse and Web page test of course. I think Yellow Lab Tools (yellowlab.tools/) is worth mentioning it too, as it helped me sometimes.

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swyx β€’

thanks for sharing it! will add.

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Todd H. Gardner β€’

Hey! We just launched Request Metrics, which fits nicely in this list. It's simplified web performance monitoring, easier and faster to use than APM suites. I'd love to know what you think:

requestmetrics.com/

We also write about performance here on Dev.to:
dev.to/requestmetrics

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swyx β€’

awesome! no bandwidth to test it out but will add

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PaweΕ‚ Kowalski β€’

Im kind of surprised you didnt list sitespeed.

Its an amazing project - open source, self-hosted, a lot of beautiful reports (including over time). Perfect for medium+ sized companies, to track their progress on this perf journey. ;)

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swyx β€’

I simply didn't know about it!

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Zane Milakovic β€’

You should add latency.apex.sh/

It let’s you compare two urls and check the latency between multiple regions.

This is great to check out you CDN strategy. We actually used it to make a case that we need a CDN. Because enterprises are still in need of being convinced.

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swyx β€’

for sure. thank you! never heard of it before!

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Dilshad Ahmed β€’

Great post!
GTMetrix and WebPageTest are my favorite ones and I've been using them for more than 4 years.
I have one suggestion for a Web Performance tool that I recently came across: SpeedVitals.com. They also have a TTFB Test that can measure it from 25 locations

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Simon-Rodgers β€’

Thanks for the list. Just wanted to share some free tools: websitepulse.com/tools/
Includes four categories of tools:
Website / Webpage Test Tools,
DNS / Blacklist Test Tools,
Service / Email Test Tools,
Network Test Tools.

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Olex Tkachuk β€’

One more to your list:

PageSpeed Green - can track Google PageSpeed from 5 different regions with CLI integration.

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swyx β€’

cert revoked :(

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Olex Tkachuk β€’

Fixed, thanks!

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Burak β€’ β€’ Edited

It is very useful content. Thank you. I want to add webspeedtest.image4.io/ test tool. It is only related to website images. You can optimize and have a faster website with image4io solution.

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Nicolas Hoizey β€’

Nice list! πŸ‘

I think you can add Dareboost in the "Comprehensive Tools" list. I love it!

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swyx β€’

wow this tool looked simple at first but then i was floored at the number of features. looks great! i do think they should collapse their "yes" checks.

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Nicolas Hoizey β€’

UX is regularly improved, but it is really a nice tool already, and not limited to performance.

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Nasidul Islam β€’

Comprehensive list. Great work!

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Douglas Fugazi β€’

Super cool list of tools. Thanks for sharing!