Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Pingdom: Load time tester
Category: JavaScript
, Utility
Peter Alguacil and his team have created Pingdom, a free tool that tests the load time of websites and all included objects such as images, CSS files, scripts, etc, and shows this information graphically with an Ajax interface.
4.3 rating from 32 votes
so basically what firebug does but in a web-app which has delay.
Wow,
What’s with the hateful comments… I’ve been noticing a trend lately, and it’s a shame that we’re tossing out comments like this.
Whatever happened to applauding developer efforts? Isn’t there enough hate in this world?
Chill, peeps.
I completely dig this app. Its simple and works. Great job. 8)
@Frank: I totally agree.
I’m loving that grid view, that’s an absolute masterpiece of xhtml/css based data visualisation.
Sure, but you can’t print what Firebug displays.
This is GREAT!! Sure firebug can do this but it doesn’t do first byte timing which is the most important thing (for us at least). Thank you so much for doing this!
Really nice. The only mistake I noticed was it’s tendency to recurse through links that are just used for namespace references. For instance I have some embedded/inline CSS that uses “@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);”, and it proceeded to load all the XHTML and images from the w3.org site and included that on the results grid.
Well done, that is really nice work.
I agree with frank….there’s not enough love and appreciation in the world.
I think they have really managed to create a very stylish app, with some pretty slick functionality. Sure firebug does a similar thing, but it’s still neat to see.
Nice, a stylish wheel with first byte timing.
Firebug gives incorrect results by the way. Since it does not have direct access to the cache, it must reload all JS and CSS files, which will get put into your timings. So if you are trying to time second page views, etc., it will be wrong.
I apologize for not doing the legwork myself, but as a time saver perhaps someone who has already looked at it could reply:
Does the app have any capability to store the load times over a period of time (days, a week, etc.) so it can be used for analysis later?
Thanks.
I appreciate the developer efforts, but there is one thing i can’t help to notice (nothing connected to the quality of the site, mind you :).
Sure Firebug is wrong, but we at least know when it is and we can override it. For a site everything boils down to the current load and where in the nine hells our providers burn :)
For instance - i tried with my own site. I have two background gif images which are horizontally flipped and each weigh about 0.7K. The first time when i tested one of them loaded within a 0.2s, the other one after 1.5s.
So, i’ll prefer Firebug for now :)
I tried http://127.0.0.1/ and it redirected to http://tools.pingdom.com so, unlike Firebug, this tool has the advantage that one can compare response times to other external websites using the internet not your LAN.
This tool is awesome. AFAIK, Firefox doesn’t distinguish between connection times and download times the way this does, which is extremely helpful.
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor gives Pingdom a RED badge! WTF Dion?
What a COOL Tool. I never know about this before. Thank you so much to share this with us.