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Fine Tuning Websites

How do you make a website as good as it can be? There are a bunch of helpful tools to help you do that. This guide will point you towards a few of them.


How do you make a website as good as it can be? 

Well, there are a bunch of helpful tools available online to help you investigate your websites performance and quality.

1. Google PageSpeed Insights

What does it do?

Google PageSpeed insights will give you insights on a sites performance and pointers on how to address any issues it finds. The higher the score the faster your site loads and performs.

Why use it?

If your website takes a long time to load people will get board or frustrated and go elsewhere. If you want to retain interest in your site content that content needs to be delivered quickly. Not only that but the time it takes for your site to load also effects your google search engine ranking. For further reading here is a good article on how pagespeed affects conversion rates:

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/page-load-time-conversion-rates

2. GTMetrix

What does it do?

Similar to Google PageSpeed insights it will give you metrics on the performance of your site. Revealing where things can be improved to increase performance.  

Why use it?

It is a good idea with most things to get a second opinion. GTMetrix may pick up things that Google PageSpeed insights might miss.

3. Pingdom

What does it do?

Gives you a performance grade, and tells you how quickly a site loads. 

Why use it?

You can specific select WHERE the performance tests run from. Someone accessing your site from America may have a different experience to someone accessing it from the UK. So its helpful to be able to see the differences in speed, dependent on where people visit your site from geographically.

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