Testing the performance of our site

We built our responsive pages, improved the look and feel, and also optimized the performance of our site. But before the application goes live, it is the duty of a developer (or dedicated tester) to test the performance of the website.

There is a set of tools that we can use:

  • mobiReady (http://ready.mobi/): This free tool is used for testing the performance of a responsive website across different resolutions in parallel. It gives each page a score out of five, based on factors such as data sent or received and number of requests made.
  • Webpagetest (http://www.webpagetest.org/): This online tool helps in testing the performance of a website with respect to specific location and browser for which we want the result. ...

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