Alternatives to Pingdom Tools
A free online website speed test that reports load time, page size and request count. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pingdom Tools
A free online website speed test that reports load time, page size and request count.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pingdom Tools.
GTmetrix
An online page speed tester with waterfall charts, Core Web Vitals, scheduled monitoring and alerts.
GTmetrix adds Core Web Vitals, waterfall charts, 25 regions and scheduled monitoring, with many options needing an account or paid plan.
PageSpeed Insights
Google's free web tool that reports Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse results for any URL.
PageSpeed Insights reports Core Web Vitals field data and Lighthouse suggestions separately for mobile and desktop, run by Google with no account.
WebPageTest
An online website performance tester with waterfall charts, filmstrips, multiple locations and throttled connections.
WebPageTest offers detailed waterfalls, filmstrips and throttled connection profiles, giving more depth but output that assumes performance knowledge.
KeyCDN Website Speed Test
A free full-page speed test with a waterfall breakdown, run from one of 10 global locations.
KeyCDN Website Speed Test gives a full waterfall with per-asset timings and headers from one of 10 locations, with shareable results.
Uptrends Website Speed Test
A free online website speed test with waterfall reports, Core Web Vitals and filmstrip screenshots.
Uptrends Website Speed Test adds a Chrome or Edge choice, filmstrip and Core Web Vitals to a waterfall report, while promoting paid monitoring.
DebugBear
A web performance testing and monitoring service with a free Core Web Vitals speed test.
DebugBear combines a free lab test and filmstrip with real-user Core Web Vitals, though the free test uses a limited set of locations.
GiftOfSpeed
A free website speed test and Lighthouse-based speed and uptime monitoring service.
GiftOfSpeed provides Lighthouse-based speed reports plus free uptime and slowness alerts, which require an account.
Experte Page Speed Test
A free bulk page speed test that runs PageSpeed Insights metrics across many URLs at once.
Experte Page Speed Test checks up to 500 pages in one run using PageSpeed Insights metrics, instead of testing a single page.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Pingdom Tools as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
ByteCheck
A free online checker that measures a website's Time To First Byte.
Pingdom Tools reports full page load time, size and request count from multiple regions, rather than only time to first byte.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pingdom
A hosted website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, transaction checks and real user monitoring.
KeyCDN Performance Test
A free web tool that measures DNS, connection, TLS and TTFB times for one URL from 10 locations.
Treo Site Speed
A free web report showing real-user Core Web Vitals and historical speed trends for any domain.
Yellow Lab Tools
An open-source tool that audits a webpage for performance and front-end code quality issues.
Request Map Generator
A web tool that draws a node map of every request a page makes, including third parties.
