Front end Performance testing tools.

Page Speed

• It provides the web page performance overall score based on the front end performance optimization rules.
• Page speed provides complete detail of the time spent on web page’s different components i.e. Images, CSS and Java Script files etc.
• It lists down all the web page’s bottlenecks along with their details as well as all the possible solutions in order to help the developers to quickly fix those issues.
• Page speed also highlights all the good practices which are already followed by the developers to optimize the web page speed.
• Page speed provides all the above mentioned information for mobile devices browsers as well.
• Link : https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

Web Page Test

Web page test is a Google sponsored free online service which provides the web page complete performance details on a particular browser when it is accessed from a specific location. Following is the detailed list of web page test’s features:

• It provides web page performance results for modern browsers on different internet connections (including mobile 3G connection) from different geographical locations.
• Web page test also provides advanced test options like multistep transactions, video capturing and content blocking etc.
• It provides results for iPhone and Android devices browsers as well along with the desktop browsers.
• You can also compare different web pages performance results through web page test.
• It also provides web page diagnostics information like waterfall charts and page speed optimization checks along with the performance optimization suggestions.
• Web page test also provides the page statistics on first view and repeated view along with the details of server responses.

Link: http://www.webpagetest.org

BrowserMob – Neustar

Neustar is another free online service (offered by BrowserMob) to test the web page performance from different geographical locations. Following is the list of Neustar’s features:

• Neustar provides web page average load time, its total size and page requests information.
• It provides web page statistics from 4 different geographical locations like California, Washington DC, Singapore and Dublin etc. in order to provide the web page global performance results.
• Neustar also provides the details of each page component share in page load time.

Link: http://www.neustar.biz/lp/web-performance-trial/index.html