Three Useful Tools to Optimise the Speed of your Website

Recent reports have stated that Google’s algorithm will use page load speed as a ranking factor.

With this in mind, this should now be taken into account and noted as an important factor when optimising the speed of your website.

I have listed below three very useful tools that may help you to optimise the speed of your website and give you the ability to pinpoint exactly what’s slowing you down, as well as advice and recommendations on how to make any necessary improvements.

Yahoo! YSlow

Personally, I think this tool is the most user friendly of all the speed optimisation tools listed here and can be used by just about anyone. This tool allows you to analyse web pages and suggests ways to improve the performance of your website.

Google Page Speed

Google’s Page Speed tool is a great Firefox add-on. Similar to YSlow it uses best practices and divides these up into categories. Once you’ve run the tests, you’ll get a set of scores for each page and advice on how to speed things up.

Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance

Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance tool provides information on how fast your pages load, how this speed has changed over time and how these loading times compare to other sites. This is a great tool to use to compare you to your competitors. After running the tool you will be presented with suggestions on how to speed up your site for an improved user experience.

Kenneth Berkley
Natural SEO Programmer