Checking your website speed
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At some in your web development or design journey you will want to check how quickly a website loads and how quickly your visitors will get to see, and interact with, the site.
It may be that you are checking your site before it has been finished so that you can tweak it as you go. It may be that you are checking it after it has been completed to see if it responds fast enough. Or it may be that you are being asked to check someone else's site as a first step to speeding it up.
How to check site loading times?
If you have been doing this sort of a thing for a while you will likely already know most, if not all, of the below sites.
There may still be some that you do not know very well though and some may work better for you than others.
On to the sites
The first option isn't a site at all. If you open Chrome DevTools by pressing F12 while Chrome is loaded you will have access to Lighthouse and Performance Insights from the menu bar that opens.
There are also a range of other tools here that will be mentioned in other articles.
Now for the actual sites
Sites that can be used to check the loading speed of your own page or site are listed below. These are not listed in any specific order. Remember that the performance metrics all want to ideally be green if possible.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/
https://nibbler.insites.com/en
https://sitechecker.pro/speed-test/
What's next?
The great thing about these tools is that they will also give you some information about how you can fix some of the issues that they identify. Following some of this advice, where appropriate, will help you to make your site even faster.