Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

9 points by bryanalves 14 years ago | 8 comments

So I'm looking to put together a suite of tools put together some metrics of page load performance for my company's sites. I already know about:

* www.webpagetest.org * www.yottaa.com * Google analytics has some meaningful stuff * Internal tools for back-end performance (number/time of database hits, etc)

What other tools should I be looking at to gather a comprehensive set of metrics?

signal 14 years ago |

We use NewRelic to see everything from the bottom up: http://newrelic.com/

It's really easy to use, comprehensive and they have a 14day trial.

I also like yslow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

It's good for quick checks.

tonyarkles 14 years ago |

I've been working on a tool for doing simultaneous page-load measurements and back-end profiling. Here's a paper my supervisor and I published on it: http://portal.acm.org.cyber.usask.ca/citation.cfm?id=1958746...

Depending on your environment, we could talk about getting you a copy to try out. It's ... a little rough around the edges, but I've found it quite useful.

ecaroth 14 years ago |

I can't speak to it's effectiveness, but I have this site bookmarked to use soon on one of my projects: https://www.blamestella.com/

jiaaro 14 years ago |

I was at a web speed optimization meetup and we used this tool: http://www.webpagetest.org/

It was pretty neat and VERY useful.

r4vik 14 years ago | |

yeah we use this too, can't believe the amount of stuff they let you do for free. You can even generate video showing your site verses your competitors loading at 0.5 fps.

dawson 14 years ago |

We use NewRelic http://newrelic.com and Pingdom http://pingdom.com.

newman314 14 years ago |

Here are a couple.

  * Browsermob  
  * Pingdom (tools.pingdom.com)  
  * blitz.io  
  * http://loadimpact.com/

HTH

twapi 14 years ago |

try http://websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/