Great extensive write-up on how to use Google Chrome Developer Tools’ timeline function to isolate bottlenecks and then addressing them.
URL: http://www.nateberkopec.com/2015/10/07/frontend-performance-chrome-timeline.html
Tag Archives: tools
SpeedCurve – Monitor and Compare Front-end Performance
An introduction to uptime monitoring vs real user monitoring (RUM) and performance benchmarking by new entrant SpeedCurve – clearly explaining how each of these services are crucial to measuring and improving your site performance. SpeedCurve are looking for beta testers to try out their benchmarking tool which offers great visualisation of your site’s performance against your competitors.
URL: http://speedcurve.com/blog/how-speedcurve-fits-into-your-web-performance-toolkit/
Open-Source Site Speed Crawler
Looking for a way of finding speed bottlenecks across your site? Sitespeed.io runs from the command-line and scores pages against the ySlow scores and captures everything in a clean interface. More information posted here.
URL: http://sitespeed.io/
Pingdom goes 2.0 on web page testing
Joining other tools like webpagetest.org, Pingdom beefs up its load test offering.
15 Tools to Help Speed Up Your Website
Using some of the tools and methods already linked to here at sitespeed.com.au, ReadWriteWeb outlines some great tips.
URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/15_tools_to_help_speed_up_your_website.php
Which Loads Faster?
A fun tool to compare between two sites to see ‘which loads faster’. Options include testing each site on GTMetrix and multiple loads.
Byte Check
Simple test that breaks down the initial HTTP request by time.
Load Impact – Page Analyzer
For measuring load times segmented by the request handling.
GTMetrix
Great comparison tools for PageSpeed and YSlow that combines the site scores in a web-dashboard, allows multiple site tracking and more.
URL: http://gtmetrix.com
Google Page Speed
Rules and documentation from Google on Page Speed
URL: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rules_intro.html