If you are a website/blog owner then you must already be knowing the benefits of a faster loading webpage. Well, if at all you were taking this aspect lightly then I must tell you that Google has now decided to penalize heavy and slow websites/blogs by pushing them down in search results. Here I am listing 5 cool websites that’ll help you know how fast (or slow) your website is. Many factors affect the speed of a website like images, flash content, embedded videos, CSS (stylesheets) and even your HTML structure. It’s better to know what might be slowing down your site before search engines like Google penalize you.

WebPageTest.org

WebPageTest.org is one of the best website speed analyzers. It provides results of many sites simultaneously in two different ways – The number format and the visual format. Personally, I liked the number format because it takes in various configuration options to provide accurate results.

Web Page Analyzer

This tool is good in a way that it provides extensive statistical figures related to your websites performance and speed. Very detailed analysis is done on each and every element that is present on your webpage. Very useful for serious webmasters.

iWebTools – Web Speed Test

The speed tool at iWebTools is little less analytical but gives a really quick overview of your webpage. It can simultaneously display webpage speeds of up to 10 pages.

Self SEO – Website Speed Checker

Apart from showing the normal load times of a webpage, Self SEO’s webpage speed checker also displays Average Speed per KB. This has everything to do with the latency and the number of HTTP requests to the server. Very useful data to figure out whether or not your server is fast enough.

Website Goodies – Speed Test

Pretty simple but fast. Instantly provides the page load time and and the page size. However, it excludes the images and embedded content which might not just be something you want. Still, give it a try.

Here are some of the tools that tests your website’s speed and loading time. Hope you find them useful. For more interesting articles, keep visiting TechExplorer,in. You can also subscribe to us.