CHECK SPEED AND PERFORMANCE OF WEBSITE
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| Page Speed Google |
It is important
that you speed up your website as much as possible because, all other factors
remaining the same, a faster performing site may rank higher in Google search
results. That’s because Google now considers page speed as one of the factors
while ranking pages.
How to Measure
your Site Performance
Google offers a
free tool called Page Speed that you may use to improve the performance of your
web pages. The tool performs several tests against your website and then
suggests simple ways to make your site even faster.
YSlow from Yahoo!
is another such tool that measures the performance of your pages and offers
suggestions for improvement. Yahoo! says that the response time of web pages
can be improved by 25% to 50% by following the recommendations made by the
tool.
Run Page Speed
and YSlow Online
Both Page Speed
and YSlow are available as add-ons for Firebug and will therefore only work if
you have Google Chrome or Firefox on your computer.
If you are
however running a different browser (like IE) or would like to evaluate the
performance of your sites without installing add-ons, you should give GTMetrix
a try.
GTMetrix will
analyze your pages using both Page Speed and YSlow rules in one go and other
advantage is that it runs online without requiring any add-ons.
You can setup a
free account and the service will automatically run performance tests against
your site at pre-defined intervals. It also preserves the reports of previous
tests and you can therefore easily measure the outcome of
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