How to Test Your Websites Page Speed?

 

·         It's time to figure out how long it takes your website to load. So you can do this very easily using a free online tool called GTmetrix.

 

·         So simply head over to gtmetrix.com and you'll land on a page that looks similar to this.

 

·         Once you're on this page, you want to simply enter your website into this box at the top, and then click Analyze. However, before you do that, I just wanna share with you a pro tip.

 

·         If you actually sign up and create a free account, you can actually change your browser location. So your browser location is basically the location this tool is going to test your site speed from.

 

·         So LevelFinish obviously targets in the US and currently the browser location is set to Vancouver in Canada.

 

·         So this won't be a true reflection of how long my site takes the load.

 

·         So what I want to do is change that to the right location. So like I said, if you create an account, you can actually change this location.

 

·         So I'm gonna find one in the US, which I've just got Dallas right here.

 

·         I'm gonna check if there's any more. So I've got China, UK, India, Australia, and Brazil. Okay, so that's fine. So I'm gonna go with Dallas, as that is the only one based in the US.

 

·         So once I've done that, I'm not going to worry about the rest, I'm simply gonna click Analyze. So what GTmetrix is gonna do now, it's gonna go out, and pretend browse is actually gonna be in Dallas, in the US and then it's gonna visit my site and see how long it takes to load, so let's wait for the information to come through now.

 

·         So, as you can see, the information is now populated, and it took my site 1.4 seconds to load. So that is really good as it is below three seconds, so we have nothing to worry about.