Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Check Website Loading Speed By Pingdom Tools


As we all know that website loading speed is an important factor that forms a significant part of on page seo. The websites having less loading time can have an edge on the website which has medium or high loading time. So, today I will guide you on how to check website loading speed by pingdom tools. Pingdom is a service that provides free tools for checking the website loading speed.


So here we go:


pingdom tools screenshot

  • Enter your website name and click test now button.
  • It will show you a detailed file-wise analysis and at the end of the page it generates a summarized report.
check website loading speed by pingdom tools

  • Now ideally your website loading time should be between 1 to 2 seconds.


If your loading time is more than 2 seconds then you should use the below steps to reduce it.


  • If you feel that your theme is quiet heavy then you can consider changing your theme.
  • Don’t use heavy images i.e. images should be below 100kb.
  • Reduce the number of redirects if any.
  • You can also take the advantage of gzip, gzip is a compression algorithm.
  • Use static images instead of animations.
So you can use pingdom tool to evaluate and improve the load time of your site.

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