Google had announced last year that it was looking towards a faster web which means that it expects all the websites to be loading super quick in order to rank better in the search engines. This means that for the Search Engine ranking , web page speed can also be considered as one of the factor. Hence we have been looking for different speed test tools like Google Page Speed Tool & Pingdom Tools, and here is another excellent online web tool which can help you in finding out.
The tool is available at GTMetrix, where in you need to enter the Website URL and wait for the tool to analyze the website you have entered and give you a complete report. The results are Breakdown into different sections like YSlow, Page Speed, Performance History, Report History with a YSlow Grade, Page Speed Grade, Page load time, Total page size etc. The results are given in high detail with focus on multiple factors as given below.
Check List done by Tool:
* Add Expires headers
* Avoid AlphaImageLoader filter
* Avoid CSS expressions
* Avoid HTTP 404 (Not Found) error
* Avoid URL redirects
* Compress components with gzip
* Configure entity tags (ETags)
* Do not scale images in HTML
* Make AJAX cacheable
* Make favicon small and cacheable
* Make fewer HTTP requests
* Make JavaScript and CSS external
* Minify JavaScript and CSS
* Put CSS at the top
* Put JavaScript at bottom
* Reduce cookie size
* Reduce DNS lookups
* Reduce the number of DOM elements
* Remove duplicate JavaScript and CSS
* Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
* Use cookie-free domains
* Use GET for AJAX requests
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Regards
Mario
A perfect tool for making changes to the web page that can speed up its loading. And that includes a real long list, that a normal person can not easily do and optimize the page.