No one likes to visit a website that takes forever to load. We all want a web that loads quickly, so that the most relevant information is displayed before anything else. That's why it becomes a priority for any blogger to ensure that loads quickly.
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Know and measure how fast a site loads is half the battle. Analyze and then make the necessary changes is a constant battle that every webmaster must fight daily. A site that loads quickly brings many benefits - a better user experience, reduces the use of mobile data, reduces bounce rate, increases traffic, provides better visibility for visitors, and obviously reinforces SEO.
The tools dedicated to quality and performance of the websites are essential to control the speed of your site. I personally use regularly, especially after installing or removing a WordPress plugin to check the impact of it.
While for a long time I used GTmetrix recently I discovered a new benchmarking service called DareBoost . The latter, who received the e-commerce E-commerce Award at the Paris Salon and the Jury Prize and the public Crisalide Digital contest in 2014, looks like a great alternative to GTmetrix PageSpeed and Google Insights. At first glance, DareBoost provides a simple tool to test the speed of your website where you can paste the URL and see how it reacts with various devices such as desktop computers and mobile, as well as different browsers and places.
DareBoost: design at the heart of the platform
The main reason DareBoost caught my attention is its sleek design . I find too often similar tools that are not ergonomic, which show me a ton of messy data, making it difficult to understand the problem solving. This is far from the case with DareBoost because once connected to the service, the home page includes a dashboard with three or four modules, each clearly explaining their functionality.
Have a nice interface is always a great thing, but how these tools actually work to audit your site? Once you click the top right button "New Analysis", you can paste your URL and select your geolocation, browser and the type of device to be tested.
Feature-rich
One of the things I like about it is the way it displays results. The service will give you a score of 100, and will highlight the problems and possible improvements . Below each summary, you will have the total time of page loading, the page size and the number of HTTP requests - among multiple metrics that service back.
In addition, another feature of the platform is also the fact that the results of the validation of the W3C CSS. This saves you from having to validate your website on the W3C site to see if everything is consistent. Moreover, the technologies that are necessary for your site are displayed.
Suggestions for best practices are broken down into several categories . A score is assigned to 100 and guidance is provided on how you can improve your score. For example, in the screenshot below you can see that in "Accessibility: good practices and advice," I need to improve explain the purpose of each form field. Obviously, this is one of the many tips that provides the tool.
The service can be used to monitor your website daily and send you a report. Reports can also be exported in PDF format. Basically, you will be able to use the platform according to your desires, your needs and your wishes.
Unfortunately, you can only test the website's homepage for free. To test other areas of your website, such as categories, articles and many other of your blog, or pages of your shop, you have to go through the box. But rest assured, no need to go to the bank and take out the checkbook. The least expensive plan sells for € 19 per month, with no obligation, and you enables automatic monitoring 5 pages (regardless of the field ) conservation of three months of data. For those in need of monitoring 100 pages of data retention in unlimited it will cost 119 euros per month.
Frankly, I'm really impressed with DareBoost. The reports are easy to read and provide advice on how to improve your website. The question is how important you will put in the optimization of your website, and if you are willing to pay twenty euros every month. At a time when Google penalizes more sites not complying with certain major constraints, including the speed of loading the site, it could be a great idea .
Note that the (SEO) DareBoost published a practical guide to understanding the challenges of Web performance. I suggest you try the service for yourself by visiting DareBoost.com.
See also : Nexus 5 (2015) and Nexus 6 (2015): specifications revealed
Know and measure how fast a site loads is half the battle. Analyze and then make the necessary changes is a constant battle that every webmaster must fight daily. A site that loads quickly brings many benefits - a better user experience, reduces the use of mobile data, reduces bounce rate, increases traffic, provides better visibility for visitors, and obviously reinforces SEO.
While for a long time I used GTmetrix recently I discovered a new benchmarking service called DareBoost . The latter, who received the e-commerce E-commerce Award at the Paris Salon and the Jury Prize and the public Crisalide Digital contest in 2014, looks like a great alternative to GTmetrix PageSpeed and Google Insights. At first glance, DareBoost provides a simple tool to test the speed of your website where you can paste the URL and see how it reacts with various devices such as desktop computers and mobile, as well as different browsers and places.
DareBoost: design at the heart of the platform
The main reason DareBoost caught my attention is its sleek design . I find too often similar tools that are not ergonomic, which show me a ton of messy data, making it difficult to understand the problem solving. This is far from the case with DareBoost because once connected to the service, the home page includes a dashboard with three or four modules, each clearly explaining their functionality.
Have a nice interface is always a great thing, but how these tools actually work to audit your site? Once you click the top right button "New Analysis", you can paste your URL and select your geolocation, browser and the type of device to be tested.
Feature-rich
One of the things I like about it is the way it displays results. The service will give you a score of 100, and will highlight the problems and possible improvements . Below each summary, you will have the total time of page loading, the page size and the number of HTTP requests - among multiple metrics that service back.
In addition, another feature of the platform is also the fact that the results of the validation of the W3C CSS. This saves you from having to validate your website on the W3C site to see if everything is consistent. Moreover, the technologies that are necessary for your site are displayed.
Suggestions for best practices are broken down into several categories . A score is assigned to 100 and guidance is provided on how you can improve your score. For example, in the screenshot below you can see that in "Accessibility: good practices and advice," I need to improve explain the purpose of each form field. Obviously, this is one of the many tips that provides the tool.
The service can be used to monitor your website daily and send you a report. Reports can also be exported in PDF format. Basically, you will be able to use the platform according to your desires, your needs and your wishes.
Unfortunately, you can only test the website's homepage for free. To test other areas of your website, such as categories, articles and many other of your blog, or pages of your shop, you have to go through the box. But rest assured, no need to go to the bank and take out the checkbook. The least expensive plan sells for € 19 per month, with no obligation, and you enables automatic monitoring 5 pages (regardless of the field ) conservation of three months of data. For those in need of monitoring 100 pages of data retention in unlimited it will cost 119 euros per month.
Frankly, I'm really impressed with DareBoost. The reports are easy to read and provide advice on how to improve your website. The question is how important you will put in the optimization of your website, and if you are willing to pay twenty euros every month. At a time when Google penalizes more sites not complying with certain major constraints, including the speed of loading the site, it could be a great idea .
Note that the (SEO) DareBoost published a practical guide to understanding the challenges of Web performance. I suggest you try the service for yourself by visiting DareBoost.com.
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