Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#1

Post by bryanalves » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#2

Post by ecaroth » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

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/

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#3

Post by jiaaro » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 10:19 PM UTC

I was at a web speed optimization meetup and we used this tool: http://www.webpagetest.org/

It was pretty neat and VERY useful.

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#4

Post by twapi » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 10:20 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#5

Post by newman314 » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 10:29 PM UTC

Here are a couple.

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

HTH

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#6

Post by signal » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 12:03 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#7

Post by r4vik » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 1:41 AM UTC

jiaaro wrote: post #3

I was at a web speed optimization meetup and we used this tool: http://www.webpagetest.org/ It was pretty neat and VERY useful.

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.

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#8

Post by dawson » Tue, Jul 26, 2011, 9:53 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Page load performance monitoring tools

#9

Post by tonyarkles » Sat, Aug 06, 2011, 4:58 AM UTC

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.