Measuring Performance
Load Testing Apache with AB (Apache Bench) Measuring your web app performance with Apache Bench
Tools To Test Speed
Really perfect writeup of current offerings of page speed test tools.
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WebPagetest
There is also an CLI tool: marcelduran/webpagetest-api and you can script WPT:setCookie https://www.save-up.at etk-private=1 navigate https://www.save-up.at
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GTmetrix checks both PageSpeed and YSlow metrics.
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KeyCDN Website Speed Test is a new kid on the block, but as usual, it is very professional.
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DareBoost can also launch competitive benchmarks.
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Pagelocity is really not that bad.
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CA App Synthetic Monitor has Switzerland tests.
WebPagetest can show all the public test history, but Pingdom has a free monitoring.
FeedTheBot is the best tool to test bth the speed but also a compliance with Google’s recommendations. The same site contains beautiful SEO tool.
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Google PageSpeed Insights
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SiteSpeed.me is a great idea. It will check site availability and speed from different spots around the world.
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WhichLoadsFaster will load two sites in parallel and compare their speed. Very interesting.
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Show Slow collects performance metrics over time from YSlow, Page Speed Insights, WebPageTest and dynaTrace AJAX Edition rankings.
Website Speed Test by Stat My Web
Check HTTP headers and explain them with REDbot.
Waterfall charts explained
Beginner’s Guide to Waterfall Charts How to use a waterfall chart to diagnose your website’s performance pains
Desktop tools for Web Debugging & Performance Testing: Fiddler
Some new resources to measure site performance:
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Sitespeed.io? Welcome to the wonderful world of Web Performance
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Measuring Web Performance automatically with Puppeteer addyosmani/puppeteer-webperf