Pingdom is a server and website monitoring service company. but they also offer some free tools for webmasters and the general public. one of those is the Pingdom Full Page Test Widget. you can place it in your site if you feel the need to promote such a service or you can put it wherever you want for mere curiosity.
It is a iframe widget and you only need to put the url you want to test, and then look at the generated test. it is a good thing because it is supposed to be a representation of how much time it take for a average user to load your website or blog in their computer.
I am happy to see that in a average modern computer it takes 15 seconds to load Widgets Lab that is script and widget heavy. this of course varies but right now it should take from 10 seconds to 30 seconds to load widgets lab. if your own experience suggest more than 30 seconds please let me know.
With the new Widgets Lab yet to come, we will try to make that 5 to 15 seconds. that widget is a good way to check as a reference.
As you can read, it already did something useful for me, so this widget may also be useful to you.
You use it from here too if you want.
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I would also recommend to use this online free performance testing tool – http://Site-Perf.com/
It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart – so you can easily spot bottlenecks. It’s very detailed and accurate, supports a lot of features like Keep-Alive and HTTP-compression.
Also useful feature is that this tool can measure quality of internet link of your server.
zuborg: nice tool. i will allow this link. but there is no widget for it i can see. too bad.