Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

9 points by bryanalves 14y ago ↗ HN

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?

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ecaroth 14y 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 14y 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 14y 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.

twapi 14y ago ↗

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

newman314 14y ago ↗

Here are a couple.

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

HTH

signal 14y 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.

dawson 14y ago ↗

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

tonyarkles 14y 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.