We all know that Page Loading Speed has been the Buzz Word in the Internet ever since Google has added Page Loading Speed as an important factor in their Search Engine ranking algorithm.
Most of us have highly optimized our blog to make it load fast. We use various different tools like Pingdom’s Tool, Page Speed and YSlow to check out the loading time of our blog and then If it loads slow we do a number of tweakings in our blogs like changing hosts, changing themes, changing plugin and may others to make our site load faster.
We do all these and make our blog load faster but do we really compare it to the loading speed of other blogs in our niche? You may think “Why do we need to compare?” “What help will comparing the page speed be for me?”.
What if you have been losing to your competitor for months in Search Engine rankings for certain keyword/s even after having lot more backlinks then your competitor, having a higher Pagerank, Alexa rank etc. The only reason you may be ranking behind him, may be because your page loads slower than his. Would not it be a funny situation right? Yes, It would.
Practically you can check the speed of your competitor using the above mentioned page speed checker tools also but then you will have to note down the details and then again check the speed of your blog and compare and then another one…then another.
Thus to help you, I have added a great tool in my Blog. This tool called WhichLoadsFaster will help you compare the loading time of a number of websites all at once.
This tool allows you to compare the speed of two website all at once and gives you the result as to which loads faster and by how much percent. It always displays the time taken by each page to load in Milliseconds.
Some other features of this tool:
1) You can check out few cool matchups like Between Google and Bing and may others and see which of your favorite website loads faster.
2) You can test the loading speed of two sites and find out which loads faster.
3) Race Options: You can place 3 sites in the right side and 3 sites in the left to find out which side wins (Fun Tool)
4) You can change the settings to either Parallel mode (Both sites will load at the same time) or Serial Mode. Serial mode will load one side at a time to eliminate the possibility that the two sides will interfere with each other.
You can check out the tool either at my Tools Page or you can directly go to
WhichLoadsFaster Website Speed Comparision Tool
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nice tool man checked it
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Glad you like it bro.
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Kamal Hasa Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Which script are you using for the speed test?
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
It is a script called WhichLoadsFaster, you can find it in GitHub
Great Buddy !!!!
Just checked it
Compared mine and yours blog…… mine is 2.3 faster …..
You need to do some work on loading speed …… ha ha (Don’t Mind)
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 14th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Ya I know bro, I have these freaking loads of plugin and so many images
. Really need to get Thesis now 
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This is Cool Tool! Funny and Good! Comparing with my Friends Blogs !
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 14th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Glad you liked it bro
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This is useful tool to compare ours site with competitors site…
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Yup it is. I am glad you liked it
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awsome tool buddy.!! tnx….ur site rocks man…:)
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Nice to know that you liked it Suresh
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Thanks for sharing Shiva,
I checked my sites out
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
So how is the loading speed of your sites Shawn
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amazingly, my site is as fast as Google. What a nice tool.
Thanks for sharing
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Wow that is pretty cool. Congratz man
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For blogs especially this is important. There are many bloggers out there who have placed so many widgets in their site it loads poorly and this is now effecting their rankings.
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Yup, Madison having a fast speed is necessary for any kind of sites not only blogs. A slow loading site will face search engine penalty
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Interesting tool which I will use from now on. So far I have only used the site speed tool in google webmaster tools but this tool does not give me the perspective on how my site rates in comparison to important sites, like competitors etc.
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Yup Andreas, google webmaster gives you information about your site only and not others site. I hope you find this tool helpful
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My site is 2.1 timez faster
thnx 4 de sharE
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Glad you liked the tool Shashank
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Along with Pingdom and YSlow, this comparison tool can be very handy. Great share, Shiva
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Yup, It surely can be handy mate. Thanks for the appreciation
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Very interesting tool and useful too for bloggers, shiva. Thank you for sharing.
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Glad you liked it Jawahar
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hey bro u changed ur theme..
switched to thesisi right:?
Still m 2.2 times faster..
jst kiddin lolz:)
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 18th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Nah it is not Thesis, it is another theme called Thrilling theme….Just wanted a change bored with the old theme
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Shiva just my 2 cents: Changing themes are good but every theme work in a different way and they have clear impact on your blog SEO.
so what ever theme you switch to make sure you see how is the SEO strength of that theme…
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Yup, You are right Harsh Bro, I did take into mind the SEO feature of the theme. I had some other reason to change the theme, actually Swift themes was looking too clustered and also looking too dull because of it design…so I decided to change it to this.I will probably be moving to Thesis in a month or so…so this is just a temporary theme
Even my site is more faster!
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My site is more faster then some other sites which are using Thesis!I am nor a coder nor a techies. Anyway a very good tool. thanks for sharing and providing.
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
I saw your site bro, the main reasons you blog loads faster is because you use less images and less plugins. Good keep it up.
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Mahendra Reply:
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
yeah, you are right. I use things only which is a necessity for life and development of my blog. There is no mean to decorate it unnecessarily it if the same increase site load time.I am happy to see that my site is even faster then Harsh’s Main Site because some of tricks I learn from Shoutmeloud.com
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Shiva never heard of this tool and this one seems to be very informative.. Thanks for such a nice share..
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Actually Harsh bro, It is a open source script called WhoLoadsFaster, I found it and installed it in my site….It is a great tool since we can compare two website’s speed at once. Thanks for the comment
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Harsh Agrawal Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:26 pm
I know and I checked your page http://www.netchunks.com/whichloadsfaster/
Seems pretty useful and realize my main site loads slower than my other new site.. So I have to get back and work on the page loading time…
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Shiva Chettri Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Ya, Even my blog was loading slow with all those plugins even with swift theme and now I changed theme and also deleted some of the plugins, now it is loading a little faster….
Also,I checked your page too and yes i did notice it loads a little slower. Maybe you should check your Alexa too ….Alexa says:
Average Load Time for Shoutmeloud.com
Very Slow (6.531 Seconds), 97% of sites are faster.
wow…this is amazing article…..
i am sure that i am looking forward to load my website much faster from now…..
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Through the whichloadsfaster site I discovered Gtmetrix which allows you to check your YSlow and PageSpeed scores without an addon. Feels god to know that my site loads faster than Mashable.com. lol
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Nice man,…. Its really nice….
How many plug-ins are good for a healthy blog…
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August 17th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
No plugins is good , if ur on shared , just use the essential cache plugin / fb share / xml sitemap / All in one sEO, thats it . done
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Using CSS Sprite , helps reduce load time. But alas , i dont know CSS .
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