Page Speed - What tool to use?

[rmontanez]

I am looking for a good tool to measure page speed.  Any tools out there that you recommend?

[RobertChapman]

Site 24x7 is quite good - http://www.site24x7.com/tools.html

Its more of an all round website monitor - but one of the built in aspects is response time.

[KyleChamp]

First thing I would look at is Cache time. I see that one be different on a lot of the website speed tests.

[rmontanez]

Nice tool.  Interesting results.  I used pingdom and the site scored 98/100.  Under the developers.google the site scored 55/100.

Thanks for the link.  Now to find why the discrepancy.

[rmontanez]

That is a good one.  The irony is that I use pingdom to monitor my sites. LOL.  Thanks of the info.

[Cary_PCC]

I've found PageSpeed Insights (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights) to be very helpful. It offers suggestions on how to improve the performance of your site, based on the potential for improvement. By benchmarking your site against others in your industry (or top performers in other industries), you can compare not only the overall PageSpeed Score, but you can identify how the suggestions differ.

This enables you to identify possible competitive advantages/disadvantages. For instance, if you receive a high priority suggestion that your competitors have already implemented, you may be at a disadvantage; the severity of which dependent on the resources required to implement the suggestion.

[KyleChamp]

tools.pingdom.com/ is one of my favorites!