Website response time test tool

My manager wants to know the speed of our website and its load times in different locations of the world, according to some speed testing websites / tools.

What are 开发者_如何转开发the standard tools / procedures for this?

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WebPageTest is a pretty awesome tool way more detailed than Gomez. Waterfall charts, repeat loads, and even videos of how a page loads. It has a few locations and connection speeds you can choose from. It seems to be down right now, but will probably be back up soon.

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Gomez is a tools that I've used at a couple of organizations. It will monitor your site at timed intervals from a list of nodes that you select, for either an individual page or over an entire transaction (think a click-path through your website)

The reporting capabilities are really good, and you can drill down into individual page requests to identify any performance bottlenecks or issues with site performance. There's also alerting options and the list of nodes and update frequency is excellent.

I've never been involved in the actual purchasing or account management however, so I'm not sure how expensive it is.