WHAT IS PAGE LOAD TIME AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT, AS WELL AS THE TOP 5-PAGE LOAD TIME MEASUREMENT TOOLS

In order to get a good user experience, your website must have low page load time.
In this world of competition with so many websites at hand touch, today's online users don't want to suffer by slow websites.

If one of your pages doesn't appear at DC's superhero flash-speed your consumer will leave your site and move onto the speedier website. Hence, instead of getting sales by those clicks, you'll receive a bad customer experience, and also the ranking of your website will suffer a loss causing your bounce rate to go up.
 As people don't want to wait for more than 4 to 8 seconds for the page to appear therefore it's better to boost the speed of your website and get better responses from your visitors.



  WHAT IS PAGE LOAD TIME?

         
In Layman's terms, page load time is the average amount of time it takes for a page to load or show up on your screen. It is measured in seconds from starting i.e when you type in a website or click on a page link to completion i.e when your page is fully loaded in the browser search.

 PAGE LOAD TIME FOR:
   ·   For mobile device - < 4 seconds
   ·   For desktop - < 8 seconds 
   

 HOW TO IMPROVE LOAD TIME?

  ·  These are a few important ways to improve load time to provide better services to your customer:

  ·   Choose a good quality server

  ·   Reduce your no. of Requests

  ·   Compress and optimize your images (low-size images are preferred best)

  ·   Cache your web pages

  ·   Remove unessential plugins

  ·   Enable browser caching  


 TOP 5  PAGE LOAD TIME MEASUREMENT TOOLS:

1) GTmetrix: uses Google page speed and Yahoo and is one of the most popular tool for analyzing site speed performance.




2) Uptrends: offers a straight check from one of the 10 locations and you can run the test either from mobile, tablet, or desktop.




3) Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI): it is a simple tool created by Google that provides real-time performance data for a webpage disregarding of its origin on a mobile or desktop device.




4) WebPage Test: it's a free and open-source tool used to calculate page load time and is one of the most popular tool to let you test from various locations across the globe.



5) Sematext: it is a simple yet reliable tool that monitors the availability of your websites and APIs(Application Programming Interface) from various locations across the globe.