GTmetrix VS WebPagetest

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

WebPagetest 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 / about 2 months ago

• Optimizing Images for Developer Blogs

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

WebPagetest mentions (51)

• A PageSpeed insight report, but for every page in your domain

  Trust neither. The most optimal option I've found is webpagetest.org Its been quite handy lately. This tool does look interesting. Source: 11 months ago

• How are you all accurately checking your website load time? Not sure PageSpeedInsights is very helpful.

  Webpagetest.org is another. Pagespeedinsights and lighthouse are great for identifying page load issues to fix, but actual page load times will always vary between the user and your web server. Universal analytics has some page load timings but that's going away soon and nothing afaik is in GA4. I've seen an example of building a page load timer in tag manager and dumping the results into an event. Source: about 1 year ago

• Extreme confusing over Speed Index results -- webpagetest.org

  So I am working on rebuilding our company's site with a new stack. I am running tests using webpagetest.org, and I am having trouble fully understanding the speed index results as well as the film strip view. The page renders quite fast everywhere I test it. Google Lighthouse shows it in the 90s + for performance score, however when I test the page on webpagetest, I get load times of 77 seconds (NOT MS) which is... Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone else experience pure ecstasy when they get 100 on Lighthouse? 😩

  Webpagetest.org is great, and checking OP's site they have done an incredible job, I don't think I have ever made or seen an Ecom site this slick. Super clean waterfall view. Source: about 1 year ago

• Performance scores for Google Lighthouse/Insights seem to be very inaccurate

  Thanks for the recommendation regarding webpagetest.org, another user made a similar recommendation so I will check it out. Source: about 1 year ago