Comments on: 3 Quick Ways to Speed Test Your Website and Improve Loading Time

By: marmaris ucuz otel

marmaris ucuz otel — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:41:20 +0000

old school web page speed report is giving good results some times.. I like old school system..

By: Tom Kirkpatrick

Tom Kirkpatrick — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:37:32 +0000

I’m looking for a similar tool to yslow (which I think is great) but that allows me to spider an entire site (opr selection of pages) and generate a (preferably printable) report showing the results. Any ideas?

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:33:38 +0000

YSlow is very nice, I especially like how extensive their guide and FAQs are (I guess, to be expected, coming from Yahoo). Thanks for putting this overview together!

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:59:16 +0000

There’s another very useful tool at http://linuxbox.co.uk/website_performance_test.php . Similar to YSlow, but covers a few extra things too

By: zuborg

zuborg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:45:30 +0000

I would also recommend this online free tool: http://Site-Perf.com/

It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart – so you can easily spot bottlenecks.

Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).

By: Pepperstix

Pepperstix — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:25:50 +0000

Quite right about the temptation to add fancy widgets. Best to test their loading speed before placing them permanently. I always (definitely always) keep tabs on what Jacob Nielsen advises over at his useit.com. Thnx for the Firebug lead.

By: SEO Reloaded

SEO Reloaded — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:41:26 +0000

I just downloaded and installed the Forefox plugin Firebug and tried it on a few sites. It is a great tools, thanks for sharing. Helped me identify exactly where the problems were which were causing the sites to load slowly.

By: Forbes Wins Worst Web Usability Award

Forbes Wins Worst Web Usability Award — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:24:12 +0000

[...] the site has reloaded over 20 times and has eaten up over 10MB worth of bandwidth (according to firebug). Now some of you astute readers might be asking, “wait, 20 times? Didn’t you say there [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:13:01 +0000

Hey Ryan, you might want to look into Amazon S3 to host all your images for feebutton. It’s a lot more scalable (and relatively cheap)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:27:26 +0000

Neat Trick.

It looks like you caught feedbutton during a server hiccup, as I’ve never seen 11 second load times before.

We’re working on getting a new dedicated server for the site though, so hopefully you’ll see some faster load times in the near future.

Thanks for pointing that out though. You convinced me to upgrade to a better server in the coming weeks.