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Friday, January 07, 2011

Track The Loading Speed Of Your Websites With Speed Monitor

Loading speed is one of the parameters of search engine's algorithm to rank websites. It is also a factor that makes your website's visitor re-visit your website. There are webmaster tools that allows you monitor to measure your website loading performance and one of them is Speed Monitor. It is a portable application that can continuously track the loading speed of websites. The check interval can be adjusted and it summarize the speed averages by the last 10, 100, and 1000 tries. You can also view the graph report of your website's performance for the last 100 measured times. You can start by adding one or multiple websites to the application by clicking on a new row and enter the website address or IP. Each row corresponds to one website or page.

Track The Loading Speed Of Your Websites With Speed Monitor

If you need to reset the data you can do so by clicking the Clear Data button at the bottom of the grid. You can also temporarily suspend the monitoring by hitting Disable Fetching button. To view the performance in graph report format, click the Chart button at the end of a website's row.

Graph of Website Loading Speed Performance

The default frequency is 60 seconds which means that the program will download each page every minute. Here are the complete features of Speed Monitor.

-Multiple websites
-Minimizes to tray
-Editable frequency
-Last 1/10/100/1000 averages
-Enable/disable switch
-If a website is unreachable, time turns red (and reads -1)
-Automatic saving/loading of URLs
-Charts of the last 100 measured times
-Drag-and-drop for URLs
-Easy data reset

Speed Monitor works on Windows operating system. I tested it on Windows 7 x86.

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