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5 Free Tools To Test Website Loading Time:
If you are a webmaster, one important aspect you need to look is the website load time. As a webmaster, one of your primary aim is to make your site load faster. Website load time is also a factor for ranking well in search engines as Google takes this as one of the factors for good ranking. There are many methods to check website load time including the webmasters tool, Page Speed extension and other third party tools.
Although there are many free tools to check the website load time, not all of them give you detailed reports on what steps you can take to improve the load time. In this article, we will cover the best 5 tools (which are free) to test the website loading time with detailed reports.

1. Pingdom Full page Test:

Pingdom FPT is one of the best available tools to check the load time and analyse the results. Full Page Test tool helps you analyse the load speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster. It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you’re not following, and so on. It examines all parts of the website to produce the detailed report.

2. Web Page Test:

With Web Page Test, you can run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple tests or perform advanced testing including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking and much more. Your results will provide rich diagnostic information including resource loading waterfall charts, Page Speed optimization checks and suggestions for improvements.

3. Website Optimization:

Website Optimization analysis allows you to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time.

4. OctaGate SiteTimer:

SiteTimer allows you to monitor how long it takes for a user to download one or more of your web site pages. As the pages are downloaded, SiteTimer stores statistics on how long time each item takes to download, and how much data they contained. This information is then presented in a grid.

5. Site Perf:

With Site-Perf.com, you get an accurate, realistic, and helpful estimation of your site’s loading speed. The script fully emulates natural browser behaviour downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular user.

There are quite a lot of other sites as well which provides just the load time alone without any analysis reports.

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Good web design relies on several factors, one of which is the right placement of every element. Tape is a Chrome extension to help web designers with this by allowing you to add rulers to a web page. Tape goes beyond what common pixel-measuring extensions offer; it doesn’t just tell you the area occupied by a particular element in pixels, but also lets you add as many rulers to the browser interface as you want, to measure and outline the relative distance of different elements from each other. You can add rulers both horizontally and vertically, define origin points (yes, more than one), and set the pointer to automatically snap to different elements in a web page as you move over them, much like in Photoshop. Tape is enabled on a webpage through a button and is controlled solely through your keyboard. Obviously, the web page itself does not remain functional while Tape is enabled, so you won’t miss the normal key functionality.


Once installed, click the extension’s button next to the URL bar to enable it. A small popup will appear at the bottom left, listing the keyboard shortcuts and their functions. Your cursor will automatically change in to a ruler with both horizontal and vertical lines. As you move your cursor across the web page, you will notice it snaps to the elements (highlighted in red). Consult the list of keyboard functions to determine how to add a ruler. Most of these shortcuts are quite intuitive to begin with; for instance, you can use the H and L keys respectively to add horizontal and vertical ruler lines.

You can drop both a vertical and horizontal line that originate from the same point by positioning your cursor over it and hitting the O key. Tape is excellent for working with large design elements, and also offers a magnifying tool that will allow you to add rulers to smaller elements. To activate the magnifying tool (called the Loupe), hit the L key with Tape enabled, and your cursor will magnify whatever you move it over.

The rulers that Tape enables can accurately accommodate even the small display elements, and creating a good grid around them is very easy. Perhaps the best feature of the extension is that if you deactivate Tape on a page after drawing a grid on it, it will remember your old markings whenever you next activate it, so long as you do not refresh the page, close the tab, or exit browser.
Tape is quite fast and very responsive, and we found no reason to complain about in our testing. The features are enough for every web designer who uses Chrome to give it a try.
Install Tape From Chrome Web Store
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