We use Pingdom often when we are optimizing WordPress and WooCommerce websites for clients, as it can provide a nice objective measure of a site’s performance at a point in time, against which we can subsequently test and demonstrate improvement.
Another service we use for this purpose is GTmetrix, which produces a slightly different output, with more emphasis on Google PageSpeed and Yslow scores than Pingdom. Both are useful tools, and provide objective measures, particularly for future comparisons against a point in time.
If you’d like to get your WordPress or WooCommerce website to be blazing fast, then please contact Silicon Dales today. This is one of our real strengths.
Ever checked your website speed using GTmetrix, Pingdom, PageSpeed or Yslow… or any of the other many and various latest and greatest speed checking tools? ***2021 update: take a look at Lighthouse Well, if you have, you might have come across a request to “leverage browser caching…” or similar. What does “Leverage Browser Caching” actually …
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There are lots of tools out there which help us to track, and measure, the speed of a website. You can install bits and pieces into various browsers. You can visit a variety of web tools, too. But which is the best method? Well, assuming you only want to occasionally check the page load times …
