Website Load Time

Pingdom provides a suite of tools to enable you to monitor the speed of your webpages. From tracking page speed, to detecting loading issues, Pingdom will help you understand and optimize your website performance.

• Speed monitoring – Pingdom will monitor your website’s speed every 30 minutes, from over 100 servers located around the globe. You’ll get a clear insight into how your site is performing for all users, regardless of their location.
• Script load times – The load times of scripts and style sheets can significantly affect the speed of your pages. Pingdom breaks down the data to provide an accurate record of how fast each script is loading across every page of your website.
• Media minification – Bloated assets are another issue potentially increasing website load time. Pingdom analyzes your images and videos and identifies any large files which are impairing load times. You can then look at optimizing these specific files to help improve page speed.
• Pingdom Filmstrip feature – Pingdom takes a screenshot every 500ms during the page loading process. These are then turned into slow motion filmstrips for you to view, giving you a clear understanding of how long each asset takes to render, and the order in which they all load. This information can be used to make key changes—such as optimizing and re-ordering assets to ensure the most important elements on your page load quickly and appear first to your audience.

• Uptime ping monitor – Pingdom checks website availability on the minute, every minute, and alerts you the instant it detects any issues. Receive alerts via SMS, email, or push notification, or choose to integrate the service with your favorite app. Once you’ve received an alert, you can immediately begin to fix the problem, ensuring your site visitors suffer minimal disruption.
• Transaction monitoring – Ensure all critical user interactions are working smoothly on your website, including the sign-up and checkout processes, as well as contact forms and search functionality. Set up notifications, so as soon as a problem occurs you can be alerted.
• Real user monitoring – Pingdom’s real user monitoring (RUM) provides insight into the actual user experience and real-world performance-related issues. In conjunction with synthetic monitoring, RUM can give you a holistic understanding of how your site is performing.