Google PageSpeed Insights is the gold standard when it comes to checking website loading time. But that’s primarily designed for developers. Non-techies can look at Pingdom and GiftOfSpeed instead.

Most folks expect near-instant access to your website -- so much so that they become 32% more likely to leave your site after viewing a single page when loading time increases from one to three ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

Ever clicked on a website only to wait endlessly as images crawled onto the screen? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Slow-loading websites don’t just test patience—they drive users away. And when users ...

A breakdown of the full process we use to test web hosting services for our reviews and best-of lists. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of ...

The loading time of your website is an important factor that determines its overall success. As people generally prefer sites which load fast, they tend to lose their patience when they come across a ...

Visitors won’t stick around if your site is slow. Speed things up with simple fixes like removing unused themes and plugins, installing a CDN or switching web hosts. Dianna Gunn built her first ...