Find Your Websites Weak Link With Pingdom

Does your website load slow? There are many elements that can cause a site to become sluggish including CSS, Javascript, graphics, and flash, among others. And with increase of widgets, photos and videos, a lot of these elements aren’t even served from the same server as your website. So how do you find the weak link that is causing your website to limp along instead of sprint toward the finish line?

PingDom Full Page Test is tool that mimics a web browser and generates a graph that displays the load time of elements which are included in your web page. PingDom gives you the option to view the list of elements either as a hierarchy or in the order they were loaded. The hierarchy view allows you to see which elements are linked to other elements, for example your CSS file. Any elements that fail to load are highlighted in red.

So if your website is loading a little on the slow side, a quick run of the PingDom Full Page Test can help you figure out what might be causing it so you can get your site back up to speed.