One of the main challenges for bloggers, small businesses, a non-profit organization, a personal website has is “Page Load Time.”

Studies show that the user leaves a site if it hasn’t loaded in 3 seconds.

Nobody likes a Slow Website.

Speeding up Websites is essential. “The web should be fast” (Google says). Google has incorporated site speed in search rankings. How fast your website load on a desktop browser and mobile browser?

Let’s try the following tools to test the time taken to load the web page globally, excluding China.

They all give you actionable information along with the following to optimize your website for fast loading.

  • Time is taken to load the page
  • Page size
  • Number of requests made to load the page
  • YSlow score
  • PageSpeed Score
  • Waterfall chart

Uptrends

Uptrends let you quickly check your site performance and provide the following essential metrics.

  • Load time
  • Page size
  • Requests made to load the page
  • Improvement recommendation
  • Request waterfall and breakdown

Uptrends got servers worldwide, which you can choose to test from.

  • Singapore
  • Amsterdam
  • Berlin
  • Frankfurt
  • London
  • Los Angeles
  • New York
  • Sydney
  • Paris

If your target audience is global, then it’s critical to ensure your page loads within the expected time globally.

As you can see above, you have an option to test on Desktop and Mobile from Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Phantom JS.

Dotcom-Monitor

Check website speed results from up to 25 locations with Dotcom-monitor. The great thing about is you can run the test from all the locations in one click.

Not just the desktop browser, but you also have an option to test from Android, Windows, and Blackberry. On the result page, you get an overall summary to get an idea of how does your site loads worldwide. If you notice slow from some location, then you can drill-down to see the slow loading resources and waterfall requests.

Sematext

Sematext Synthetics is an intuitive, easy-to-use, and reliable monitoring tool that monitors the availability of your APIs and websites from multiple locations across the globe measures performance across devices and browsers and identifies issues with third-party resources.

You can use Sematext Synthetics to measure over 25 website performance metrics, including the essential ones:

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Page speed and load times
  • Number of requests
  • Page sizes
  • Time to first byte
  • First meaningful paint
  • HTTP headers
  • Request waterfall

Get going with Sematext in a matter of minutes and access all the features and when you are ready, you’ll be able to choose from three different plans. There’s a cheap pay as you go plan that starts at $2 per month, a Standard plan for $29 per month and the Pro is $99.

Website Audit

A modern tool for a modern website.

Geekflare Website Audit is powered by Google Lighthouse to test the site for more than 40 metrics in performance and best practices. You can select to check using a desktop or mobile.

Some of the essential tested metrics are:

  • Time is taken to load the first byte
  • Fully load time
  • HTTP/2
  • Number of requests and page size
  • Resource minification
  • Compression
  • Image size
  • Interactive request waterfall

and a lot more…

SUCURI

Load time tester by SUCURI check your website from more than 15 locations and give you time taken from each location, average response, and performance grade.

SUCURI has other Security Scan test tool which you may like it too.

GTMetrix

Gtmetrix uses Google Page Speed and Yahoo! Yslow to grade your site’s performance and provides request details in the waterfall chart so you can see what request needs tweaking.

By default, it runs a test from Canada; however, if you do free registration, you will be able to run a scan from Dallas, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Sydney, Sao Paulo.

Pingdom

Pingdom lets you choose a test from the following location.

  • Melbourne
  • New York
  • San Jose
  • Sweden
  • Texas

You get an excellent summary of the test results, including performance grade, insights, response codes, content size by type/domain/type.

Pingdom also lets you drill down each request so you can examine HTTP response & request headers.

Web page test

Web page test is one of the most popular websites performance tools to let you run the test from multiple locations worldwide.

Each location got one or multiple browsers (Chrome, IE, Firefox, etc. cover the broad range of testing.

Web page test breaks down the page load time so you can focus on the weak point.

  • Time is taken to load on the first view
  • Time is taken to load on repeat view
  • Content breakdown by request/type
  • Document complete time
  • Fully loaded time
  • First-byte time
  • Waterfall view
  • Connection view
  • Request details and headers
  • CDN details

Website Pulse

WebSite Pulse lets you run a test from New York, Munich, and Melbourne.

It gives you quick information on the total time taken to load and following with each request.

  • Request status
  • Connect time
  • First-byte time
  • Last byte time
  • Request size

Site 24×7

Analyze full webpage including DNS time, Connection time, First-byte time, Start to render, Document complete, and total page loading time with Site24X7.

With Site 24×7, you can choose to test from more than 60 locations globally.

Dareboost

Perform in-depth analysis from multiple locations using a desktop or mobile browsers. Dareboost lets you test up-to five sites per month for free.

You get all the standard metrics score, tips, and best practices recommendation. There are hundreds of checks done, and if you are not familiar with them, then you can share the report with your developer. All the recommendation is categorized based on a priority so you can focus on critical one first.

Conclusion

I hope the above FREE tools give you an idea of how much time does it take to load your webpage worldwide.

If it’s getting loaded in less than 3 seconds, then well done!

If not, then you may want to work on improvement points. One of the quickest ways to improve the site performance is by using a high-performance CDN like Cloudflare or SUCURI. The hosting platform plays a vital role too.