In this tutorial, we will explain how the Pingdom tool works to measure the speed of our website.
This tool offers us a lot of information with which we can work to optimize our website and try to offer our visitors a smooth navigation.
Summary
At first glance, it offers us very concise and general information:
Performance grade: Score based on pagespeed.
Load time: Total loading time.
Faster than: Average speed worldwide.
Page size: Weight of your website.
Requests: Responses that the server has to offer.
Tested from: Country from which the request was made.
Performance insights
Pingdom will detail the rules that our website meets according to Pagespeed criteria. This way, we can know if our website is meeting Pagespeed filters or not. It also offers us the possibility of the reason why our rules are not being positively valued by Google.
Response codes
Pingdom offers us the possibility of seeing the headers that it is returning.
Content and Requests
This way, we can see the size of the files and the percentage that the total of the different files occupies. It also allows us to see the requests that the server makes as well as the external calls that the page makes.
File requests
It allows us to see the loading time of the website, in detail at the individual file level.
At the end of Pingdom, we can see a legend of everything we have talked about in this post.
