GTmetrix – Website Speed Test And Performance Optimization

If you own a website, you know how important it is to monitor its loading speed especially now that Google considers “website speed” in their search ranking algorithms.

From Google Webmaster Central Blog:

As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.

Actually, there are a lot of tools that let you test your website speed but my favorite is GTmetrix because aside from checking the speed, it also gives you some tips that help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users.

GTmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! YSlow to grade your site’s performance and provides actionable recommendations to fix these issues.

How to use GTmetrix:

1. Visit GTmetrix and enter the URL of your website and click GO.

2. GTmetrix will analyze your URL and when it’s done, you’ll receive a performance report for your website.

3. Read and understand the recommendations. To know more about this, go to Recommendations page.

4. If you want to track the history report of your website, you can create an account for free so you can check the improvements that you’ve made to your website.

5. You can also use GTmetrix to compare your website with other URL.

6. If you want to easily check the speed of other websites, you can use the GTmetrix bookmarklet. Just drag the bookmarklet below to your bookmarks toolbar and click it if you want to test the speed of the website you’re currently browsing.

A simple and effective way to speed up your website is by optimizing your images. To do this, check out:

Free Image Optimizer Software

List Of Online Image Optimizers

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