To help you optimize your site and identify opportunities to increase page speed, we’ve developed the WOW Tools Website Speed Test. To use this free tool, simply enter your URL into the box on our homepage, and then follow the instructions to run your site speed test.
The WOW Tools Website Speed Test will give you detailed information about your page load speed in multiple locations around the world, along with recommendations on how to improve your website performance.
How do I use it?
Just follow these easy steps to check your site's performance:
- Enter your website address in the tool above.
- Click Start Test
- View test results!
Within just a few seconds, you'll know whether or not your site is performing as well as it could be and learn some tips for optimizing its speed.
How to Run a Simple Website Speed Test in 4 Steps
At WOW Tools, we’re constantly working to ensure our own website is performing as fast as possible. Whether your site hosts lots of media files, or you have a lot of incoming traffic, there are several simple tests you can run to see how quickly your site loads.
In addition to finding ways to improve load times for visitors, you can use these tests to troubleshoot page slowness and other issues. By using browser tools like Chrome DevTools or Firebug (on Firefox), along with performance-measuring platforms like Pingdom and GTmetrix, you can see what’s affecting your site’s speed. Here are four easy ways to test your site’s speed
Why You Should Care About Website Performance
If your site visitors are spending too much time staring at a spinning wheel or empty page, they're going to go elsewhere. According to Google, as many as 40% of people will abandon a website that takes longer than 3 seconds to load.
Many factors affect your website performance—from internal issues like server location and response times down to your web browser or device performance. And beyond just loading speed, it’s also important to look at how long it takes users to get what they want from your site once they’re there—through online forms, searches, and other interactions.
Whatever you do, make sure your site meets user expectations across every platform with optimum performance. Don't miss out on potential conversions due to slow load times. Use our free tool below to test your site now!
The Importance of Page Load Times
Many potential customers have already made up their minds by the time your site has loaded; according to a report published by Monetate, an analytics company, 73% of people will abandon a website if it takes longer than three seconds to load.
As such, you must ensure your site is loading as quickly as possible. In fact, Google uses page speed as one of its ranking factors; improving your site’s performance may help bring it higher in search engine results. Even better? According to a recent study, optimizing your site’s performance can increase conversion rates by almost 50%.
Just make sure you don't sacrifice important SEO elements along with load times—check out our guide on how to improve SEO while speeding up web pages for more tips. You should also check out WOW Tools’ free website speed test tool (also linked above) and see how fast your site loads!
What Influences Page Load Times?
Page load times are influenced by several factors, including host location, server capacity and speed, computer hardware and software (that includes your own!), content delivery networks (CDNs), and even local conditions that may affect any of these.
Your internet service provider can also have an impact. While most ISPs offer similar download speeds for all packages offered to customers in a given area, each customer’s actual experience will vary based on how close they are to their closest data center.
The further you live from your ISP’s data center—or if you travel frequently—the slower your connection speed will be. To get an accurate picture of your connection speed, try checking out several different websites at home and while away from home using a VPN.
If you notice a significant difference in page load times between locations, it could be because of your proximity to your ISP’s data center.
How Are People Perceiving Your Site?
In today’s internet world, site performance is more important than ever. We are constantly sharing content on social media and expecting that everything will load quickly and seamlessly; therefore, if your site isn’t optimized for speed, it could hurt traffic to your site.
Not to mention, Google has declared 2018 as The Year of Mobile-First Indexing, which means that more people are searching via mobile devices than ever before—website speed is even more crucial now! Today we are excited to announce a free tool (provided by WOW TOOLS) that allows you to test your website’s loading speed.
This way, you can see how well your page performs in real-time and make any necessary changes to ensure that users don’t get frustrated with slow load times. This test should be run from multiple locations around the globe so that you can see how fast or slow your site loads from different locations.
It only takes a few minutes and can provide invaluable insight into how others experience your site. With an optimized website, not only will users enjoy their experience with your brand but search engines may rank you higher in SERPs due to faster load times. So what are you waiting for? Use our free tool today!
Other Important Points To Note
You’ll also want to pay attention to other factors besides speed when considering your site’s performance. If you’re serious about making your site as fast as possible, use a few other tools like Pingdom and GTmetrix—which both offer more detailed information about where page-load times are being lost.
For example, if you find that too many requests are being made for large images or background files, you can pinpoint exactly what needs to be optimized (and reduce how many requests need to be made) with a bit of additional research and development. While there’s no magical fix for slow sites, these tools will help make any lingering issues easier to spot.
Is There Any Fee To Use This Tool?
No, there is no fee to use our website speed test tool. This tool is completely free for any user to check their website’s performance. Even if you are not a customer of WOW TOOLS, we want you to be able to perform a free website speed test!
There are no fees involved. It doesn’t matter if you have your own business or not and whether your site is big or small... if you are curious about how fast your website loads and whether it meets industry standards, you can use our free performance test tool.
How fast is my website?
You’re concerned about speed. You should be. Slow page load times can have a devastating impact on bounce rates, conversions, and potentially your bottom line.
Here’s where our speed test tool comes in: put your website to the test today to find out how fast your site loads. Just enter your URL and click analyze.
What can I do to speed it up?
Before you can speed up your website, you first need to know where it’s slow. That’s why we built WOW TOOLS: our free website speed test tool checks your site’s loading performance in a matter of seconds.
No need to dig into your code; let us analyze and suggest what you can do to make it run faster. And, just for using our tool, we'll give you recommendations on how to optimize each page or error so that you don't have to spend hours fiddling with code settings yourself. Take our website speed test now!
