GTmetrix VS Blackfire.io

GTmetrix Reviews

1. Simon    

   Working at Simon | over 1 year ago
   A Reliable Tool for Page Speed Analysis

   GTmetrix is a free tool that offers a comprehensive analysis of your page's speed performance. Using PageSpeed and YSlow, GTmetrix generates scores for your pages and provides actionable recommendations on how to improve them. As a user of GTmetrix, I can say that it is a reliable tool for identifying and fixing issues that may be affecting the loading speed of your website.

   🏁 Competitors: Pingdom

   👍 Pros:    Detailed|Free|Additional features

   👎 Cons:    Not accurate|Free plan with limited options

Blackfire.io Reviews

GTmetrix mentions (137)

• How to improve page load speed and response times: A comprehensive guide

  These tools provide comprehensive insights into frontend performance, user experience, and potential bottlenecks. They measure performance metrics like response times, PLT, FCP, and LCP. Popular performance speed testing tools include Google PageSpeed Insights, WebPageTest, GTmetrix, Pingdom, and Google Lighthouse. They help point out areas of poor performance and send out alerts if response times get too slow. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Optimizing Images for Developer Blogs

  GTmetrix: is a tool that helps identify the reasons behind slow loading times. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Gtmetrix.com — Reports and thorough recommendations to optimize websites. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Let’s talk about your site’s performance - FREE e-book included

  First things first - understand if your site has speed issues. Tools like GTmetrix and Pingdom can help assess your site's performance. With our Speed Optimizer Plugin you never have to leave your site’s backend, we made a convenient integrated speed test to easily check the optimization level of your site in over 20 different areas. Source: 5 months ago

• Where do you draft your blog posts?

  Netlify automatically drops the extension from a webpage so all of my pages are www.mydomain.com/this webpage. Source: 6 months ago

Blackfire.io mentions (11)

• How To Start A Chat Plugin After The Page Has Fully Loaded

  Not heard of blackfire.io, I mainly use lighthouse, screamingfrog and CRUX data :D. Source: about 1 year ago

• Scaling a web application which is growing very fast

  Do you have XP with alternatives to blackfire.io? It may helps, but sounds a little expensive for evaluating performance issues. I found also MySQLTuner which is free (of course it only helps with the database). Source: over 1 year ago

• Scaling a web application which is growing very fast

  Go get a subscription to blackfire.io and profile your application. I guarantee you that your queries to the DB are shit and not using indices. Redis will just mask the issue. You probably also have a bunch of PHP code being ran in loops. Source: over 1 year ago

• Making sure your website won't crash again

  Although the connection with the API should no longer cause the trouble, we knew that this was the most compute-heavy part of the platform. So the fewer requests are sent to that API, the better the website performance would be. We used Blackfire.io to check how often the web app uses the API and we got interesting results. We noticed that the homepage, the most frequently visited page, used the API twice per each... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Guide to install xhprof (profiling) in wordpress to debug slow php

  Nice article; skimming over it, it seems exhaustive and well-written. But nowadays, I'd generally recommend blackfire.io over XHProf. Yes, it's a (mostly) closed source SAAS platform, and the free tier only offers the most absolutely basic of tools, but by the time performance really starts to matter on your wordpress site, I don't think ~$30 a month is a dealbreaker. Installation is easier, the visualisation... Source: almost 2 years ago