Tools to improve your site speed

Hey guys,

As you know Page speed has been announced as one of over 200 ranking factors of Google.

So today, I would like to share with you some tools to improve your pages speed.

1- In Webmaster Tools - Labs > Site Performance
This will let you knowthe speed of your website as experienced by users around the world as in the chart below.
google.com/webmasters/tools

2- Page Speed
This open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

3- WebPagetest
This tool will show a waterfall view of your pages' load performance plus an optimization checklist.
webpagetest.org/

4- YSlow
This free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Hope this tool help you guys a bit.

Some good thoughts there! A lot of people tend to forget about their page speed and its effects on search engines. Thanks fro the well informed thread.

Thanks for the links.

I think Reducing Image, compressing html codes, Avoiding Java Iframe, choosing a good Host, reducing swf file and using CSS coding will do the trick.

I have read an article that can help you find out everything you need to know about how to speed up your website, they give full details how to do it as a tutorial thing. Hope it can help.

Nice article find luckyheart. Thanks

Not everyone can afford to wait for 5 minutes in order to view a simple Web page. A slow Website is therefore a turn off and could potentially lead to loosing some of the few visitors you already have. Although there are many expensive software programs out there that can assist a site owner with analysing and managing Web pages, there are also some very good and free tools that can be used to evaluate the speed of your Website. This post will take a look at some of these free speed tools to help you make up your mind depending on your preferences.

Here's some guides:
7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website
Tips and Tools To Speed Up Your Website SEO Blog of Link-Assistant.Com

Hi faye valentine,

Thanks for finding these such useful articles.
I am reading them.

Good lists, thank you for sharing them with us!

Thank you for the good share. However, those tools are just a website speed measurement and cannot improve website speed anyway.

Even you have got suggestion from the tools, most of them are under these criteria

1. Use correct image format. - Realistic image use JPG / Cartoon use GIF or PNG
2. Reduce unnecessary code
3. Avoid using unnecessary image and use text instead as much as possible. ie. you should use text menu navigation instead of using text in graphic as menu
4. Quality web hosting is another key. Avoid using low quality or oversold shared web hosting.

thanks for sharing but I find better to use a free site speed report then to use google.

Thanks for sharing the information...Will be helpful for all

Sounds good tools dude. Thanks for sharing this to us.

GIF extension is recommended for icons and navigation links while PNG is for banner and images.

Thanks for sharing these tools. As far as the best ways to reduce the page load I'd recommend:

- Optimizing all of the images
- Reducing HTTP requests
- Using divs/CSS rather than tables

Jack

I agree, those tips are really effective to improve the site speed and also for search engine rankings.

I am going to check my website speed through these above tools. but you must start a new thread fro increasing speed of website.

good info, generally, the website's server has tremendous influence over the website's loading speed though. well i use IE's fast page loading function on certain sites, and it's pretty fast though

Chrome Web store has launched new Tool page Speed for more information you can visit gogole webs mater blog