Best Online Tools to test Joomla Website Speed
Website page speed has been a critical factor for SEO. Slow sites will have low page ranking than the sites which loads faster. A visitor who tries to access the website will leave if it takes more time to load. This will increase the bounce rate and ultimately result in low page rank.
A website must be optimised to open it within 2-3 seconds, and the full size of the site must not be more than 1MB. Using a lot of Javascript, CSS and Images play a significant role in increasing the page size. Optimisation of javascript, CSS and images must be done so that the website can load faster. You can use the following tools to test the speed of the site and check for the improvements
The tools are as follows :
Tools to check Joomla website Speed
GT-Metrix
GT- Metrix: I would personally recommend anybody to use GT Metrix as it provides both PageSpeed and Y-slow results in a single web scan. The results are easy to understand, and the scope of improvement can help you to optimise the website.
PageSpeed Insights from Google
Google has developed PageSpeed Insights tools. This online tool focuses on Above-the-fold content and visible content, which can be achieved by specifying CSS that favours above-fold-content.
Pingdom Tools
Using Pingdom, you can test the website from different locations. It usually gives almost the same information as GT-Metrix. You may get different load time values while testing it from a different server, network and countries. You can focus upon the vital information which provides and fix them accordingly to achieve the website page speed.
WebPageTest
WebPageTest.org is an online free speed test tool which can check the website speed from multiple locations around the world using different browsers and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple tests or perform advanced testing including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking and much more. The results will provide rich diagnostic information, including resource loading waterfall charts, Page Speed optimisation checks and suggestions for improvements.
Conclusion
After testing your website using the above tools, you may find that there are several factors which affect the Joomla website page speed. The page speed can be achieved by installing Joomla 3rd Party plugins such as JCH Optimize for Joomla or RokBooster that will compress and collate your CSS and JavaScript files; alongside data URL conversion for Fonts as well as inline or background images, which converts files to inline data. The plugins will reduce the HTTP calls count as well as the data load size, dramatically increasing site speed.
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