How to improve score with Pingdom Tools

Today we get to know another important tool: Pingdom Tools.

Pingdom Tools is a tool used for analyzing the speed of a web page.

This indeed allows to perform an analysis of the web page identifying a series of main criteria:

• Loading time;
• Page weight;
• Number of requests;
• Evaluation of performance.

The analysis is much more in-depth, let's see how it happens.

How to improve site speed with Pingdom Tools

Checking the performance of a website is very simple: you enter the interested URL into the form and start the scan after choosing the location that concerns you.

You can find the form on the page tools.pingdom.com.

You can use this tool to also identify bottlenecks, which are elements that cause a slowdown of the web page and can also be harmful to the site itself.

There are therefore three key points that allow you to speed up your site:

• Having good Hosting

Hosting is a space useful for containing web pages that is connected by a server.

To choose your ideal hosting service, it's important to ask yourself several significant questions:

• How much does it cost?
• What are its performance levels?
• Is it secure hosting?
• Is the support service effective?
• Is it easy to use?

The parameter that greatly influences the decision of hosting is especially the price.

It's important to choose hosting that offers you better performance and greater security.

Furthermore, there are also free hosting services but very often they come with limitations such as:

• Having to use a second-level domain;
• An inefficient support service;
• Limited performance.

To explain further, performance limitations are sent directly to the server by setting the number of requests that can be sent.

Therefore, when traffic increases, the site begins to slow down causing a poor user experience.

• Activating a CDN

The CDN is the acronym for Content Delivery Network and it is a network of computers and servers located in different areas.

This network hosts content and statistics.

Thus, using a CDN will help you to speed up and therefore improve loading times for content by reducing data transmission times. 

• Set up a cache plugin

The last point concerns the optimal configuration of a cache plugin.

When users connect to your site, the server receives requests.

These requests are executed using the necessary files to display the contents of web pages.

When the contents have a significant "weight", it can take a long time for the server to process the request.

Cache plugins create a temporary copy of the content, which is used to display pages without asking for the content from the server each time.

How to improve Pingdom score for free: Speed Test

To perform the speed test, it is important to consider various elements to optimize: 

• The weak points of the page and where intervention is needed to speed up the site;
• The content of the page through analysis: the report analyzes and expresses data related to the content;
• The loading of each section, or the waterfall: in this section you can identify so-called bottlenecks, the bottlenecks.

This tool is responsible for presenting the results of your site in a clear and simplified manner, so that it is readable by everyone.

In fact, just click on the highlighted element to get data on cache, status, type of server, and last modification.

Pingdom allows you to test the speed of any website from 7 different locations:

• Tokyo;
• Frankfurt;
• London;
• Washington D.C.;
• San Francisco;
• Sydney;
• Sao Paulo.

The resources of a web page are HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, and videos.

Each of these resources generates requests in order to make visible what you see on your website.

Typically, the more requests a site has, the slower the site will load.

Therefore, Pingdom is used to speed up the overall performance of the website and perform detailed analyses.

Create a fast and efficient website with Framework360 hosting

Framework360 gives you the ability to create your own website ensuring that it is fast and efficient right from the start.

How? Simply by optimizing every aspect we have talked about so far.

The images are uploaded directly to the server with a compression that limits their maximum size.

The server response is optimized to the fullest by leveraging AWS (Amazon Web Services), the best hosting available, and the code that makes up the site is clean, straightforward, and fast, the result of years of experience and constant improvements.

The platform will therefore give you the ability to configure your site in an entirely intuitive, personal way and above all efficient for search engines, without the need for any expertise in programming and website building.

Try now the speed of websites developed with Framework360!