Is your website fast enough ? Find it out with free website speed test ! You can even compare your website speed with the sites of your competitors.
It is estimated that if a page doesn’t load within 5-8 seconds you will lose 1/3 of your visitors. So if your website speed is slower than that perhaps you should revise your design, site structure or just move to a faster server.
Its simple to use no registration required. If your website turns out to be considerably slower then make sure to go through provided suggestions to make it faster.
I would also recommend this free online website 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 lof of features like Keep-Alive or HTTP-compression.
Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).