Speed and Load Testing

Testing your website, especially before making it live, is a best practice for most developers and site owners. There is, however, sometimes a bit of confusion about the types of testing and how they are done. Two of the most common are speed testing and load testing.

Website page speed testing

This type of testing measures the size and how long it takes for a page on your website to load. This is commonly used to identify any large and/or slow requests so the bottlenecks can be improved or eliminated. Pingdom’s Website Speed Test, GTmetrix, and Google’s Lighthouse are among the most popular website speed test tools.

You’re welcome to run a website page speed test anytime on your Kinsta site.

Website load testing

Load testing is prohibited on the MyKinsta platform. For more information about what testing is allowed, please refer to our Terms of Service.