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Dev - To-Every Web Performance Test Tool

This document provides a summary of various web performance testing tools organized into categories including comprehensive tools that provide waterfalls and key metrics, services with paid offerings, tools that provide improvement recommendations, test banks that test from multiple locations, and simple tools for basic checks. It describes the features of prominent tools like PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, GTMetrix, and Pingdom Tools and provides links to help identify a tool to test specific metrics like TTFB, locations, or waterfalls.

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Dev - To-Every Web Performance Test Tool

This document provides a summary of various web performance testing tools organized into categories including comprehensive tools that provide waterfalls and key metrics, services with paid offerings, tools that provide improvement recommendations, test banks that test from multiple locations, and simple tools for basic checks. It describes the features of prominent tools like PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, GTMetrix, and Pingdom Tools and provides links to help identify a tool to test specific metrics like TTFB, locations, or waterfalls.

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Every Web Performance Test Tool

dev.to/swyx/every-web-performance-test-tool-naj

shawn swyx wang

Canonical URL: https://www.swyx.io/writing/webperf-tests/

Here is every Web Performance Test Tool I know of to help identify issues in your site/get
you some key speed metrics. The idea is you think of a feature you want, e.g. "TTFB" or
"locations" or "waterfall" and just Cmd + F on this page to find a tool that helps you with
that thing.

Please let me know if you have other tools that belong here.

Comprehensive Tools
Tools that try to give you the whole kitchen sink including waterfalls

PageSpeed Insights - The original PageSpeed test from Google, aka Lighthouse run
on the web - gives you FCP, FID, TTI, screenshots, opportunities, and Diagnostics
WebPageTest - This seems the most highly regarded in the webperf circles I know
about. You pick a location and a browser. Gives you 3 runs, shows waterfall, and a
bunch of stats with letter grades for compression/TTFB, FCP, Document Complete
and Fully Loaded times.
GTMetrix - Also super highly regarded. Gives you PageSpeed and YSlow
recommendations, waterfall, historical graphs, and (for logged in users) filmstrips
Dareboost - looks simple, but actually does have filmstrip and waterfall and
recommendations!!
Falco - Open Source, self-hosted WebPageTest runner. automatically run audits &
see the evolution of key performance metrics to easily spot regressions & audit the
performance of individual URLs or entire user journeys

Services with Paid offerings


PerfBeacon - runs Google Lighthouse/Pagespeed insights at a scheduled interval +
when triggered by API calls. Price plans from 2.5k - 50k tests per month, 14 day
free trial
Calibre - set performance budgets from various worldwide locations, receive
regular reports, and get performance changes in Pull Requests. Price plans from 5k
- 50k tests per month, 15 day free trial

Improvement Recommendations
These offer improvements but didn't quite make my cut for "Comprehensive Tools" - but
are still noteworthy, esp Geekflare's security tools.
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Geekflare - Geekflare's set of 25 tools giving you everything from a Website
Performance Audit to TTFB and Traceroute tests and other security related tests.
The Audit gives a nice score and a lot of improvement recommendations.
Pingdom Tools - you pick a location, it gives you some load time/page size stats,
improvement opportunities, and a waterfall with a nice filter
RequestMap from Webperf.Tools - Simon Hearnes' request map generator which
focuses on visualizing Third Party Assets. Pick a location, and a device.

Test Banks
Tools which ping your site from multiple locations to give you a global view.

Simple Tools
Tools with simplicity as the appeal - great first checks.

TestMySite from Netlify - Netlify's tool which checks TTFB and HTTPS and gives a
score out of 100
TestMySite from Google - mobile speed report from Google - lets you generate a
report with recommendations for your team
Bytecheck.com - gives you a simple waterfall breaking down Redirects + DNS +
Connect + SSL + Send + Wait + Receive
YellowLab.tools nice letter grades per section
Pingdom Tools - you pick a location, it gives you some load time/page size stats,
improvement opportunities, and a waterfall with a nice filter
24x7 Page Analyzer - you pick a location, it shows you a waterfall of requests with a
PageSpeed score
KeyCDN Speed Tool - gives you per-asset download breakdowns - a little TOO
detailed to be useful
Butterfly - I havent looked into this too much - Unlimited Automated Page Speed
Monitoring & Tracking, Security Tracking & Performance Timing - founder is Ciprian
on Twitter

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