12 Best Places to Test your Website

Testing your website is a critical part of the web development process. Most importantly, you want to test your site for speed, responsive design and security. You always want to deliver the best quality web design services possible. Testing and monitoring are all a vital part of that. Here are 12 websites where you can go and test your website for vulnerabilities and performance snags.

Pingdom

URL: https://www.pingdom.com/

Pingdom tests the loading time of your website’s objects such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, images, and other elements. Use it to test the speed at which all the elements load so that you can make improvements to the slow-loading objects. The test summary report displays the website’s load time, number of elements, each element’s size, and each element’s load time.

BrowserMob

URL: http://bmp.lightbody.net/

BrowserMob is another free online tool for testing your site’s load speeds. What makes it unique is that it provides the result in a clear and lucid manner – load times across a number of geographical locations. The result breaks down the information about the web page objects in the form of an easy-to-understand pie-chart. You can also ask for in-depth report with more detailing.

Google PageSpeed

URL: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

PageSpeed is among the most widely used tools for testing website performances. It is an open-source tool, available both as a Chrome extension and online app. The tool will analyze the content of your web pages and provide suggestions for making it faster. The suggestions are given for each web page and you can view them in the order of their importance (priority). PageSpeed also provides suggestions for providing faster mobile experience to users.

WebToolHub

URL: www.webtoolhub.com/

WebToolHub gives you many tools to help you learn about your website’s load time with regard to different Internet connection speeds. The kind of information provided by this website include your web page size, load time with different internet connection speeds, and the elements used on your pages such as JavaScript, CSS, images and HTML.

GTmetrix

URL: http://gtmetrix.com/

GTmetrix is a hybrid between the two popular tools Google PageSpeed and Yslow. It provides you with suggestions for what is required for improving your website’s performance. Yslow may be a Firefox plugin, but GTmetrix can be used with most of the major browsers.

Responsivepx

URL: http://responsivepx.com/

Besides testing your website for its performance, you will also want to test it for the effectiveness its responsive design. The tool requires entering the URL and using the sliders for setting the height and width for testing. The maximum allowed screen size is 3,000 pixels.

Responsive Design Bookmarklet

URL: http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr/

Responsive Design Bookmarklet is an easy-to-use tool for testing your website’s responsive design. All it requires is dragging the bookmarklet above the bookmarks bar to install it. It can then be set to view the current web page on different screen sizes – for smart phones and tablets.

Qualys SSL Labs

URL: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Qualys SSL Labs performs a test of your SSL web server. It is more relevant for ecommerce websites or sites offering some kind of products or services for direct sale, but almost anyone could use it. The tool can explore SSL encryption vulnerabilities and help you ensure that all online transactions and information is safe.

Many website owners don’t know whether the server their site is hosted on is at risk or not. This tool can help address your security concerns.

Nmap

URL: nmap.org/

This is a port scanning tool that lets you map your network and ports. It has powerful NSE scripts for detecting misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and other security threats. The ncat comes included in the nmap and has many advanced features.

OpenVAS

URL: www.openvas.org/

OpenVAS is an open source vulnerability scanning suite that lets you manage all aspects of your security vulnerability management system. Use its simple interface to scan your website for any security threats.

Nikto

URL: https://www.cirt.net/Nikto2

Another popular web server testing tool, Nikto has been here for more than a decade. You can use it to learn about configuration errors and vulnerabilities. It may not be ideal for finding bugs in your SQL and XSS web apps, but it can find many threats undetectable to other tools.

WebWait

URL: http://webwait.com/

WebWait is another online tool (website) for testing your site’s load speed. It is referred to as a time that provides you with the average load time of your site. It is quite easy to use this website – enter your website’s URL, set the number of runs and it will deliver the report in terms of Average, Standard Deviation and Median. The tool will take into account all the web page elements including JavaScript, CSS and images. You can use it with any of the leading browser.

These are some of the most popular testing tools or websites for your site. Make sure to choose the right ones and test your website on a timely basis.