{"id":5472,"date":"2014-11-20T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcmblogmulti.wpengine.com\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:05:48","slug":"free-website-testing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotcom-monitor.com\/blog\/free-website-testing-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Website Testing Tools \u00bb Dotcom-Tools.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dotcom-Monitor has released a suite of free website testing tools at <a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.dotcom-tools.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dotcom-Monitor website testing tools allow you to perform a variety of tests on the performance of your own servers from external locations around the world.<\/p>\n<h2 id='perform-free-website-tests'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">Perform Free Website Tests<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the Tests you can perform include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/web-server-performance-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check HTTP and HTTPS availability<\/a> of your web site from different locations around the world<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/website-speed-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View speed and performance<\/a> of your website from different geographical regions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/email-server-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Test email servers<\/a> including POP3, IMAP, SMTP and ActiveSync<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/ftp-server-test.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Test FTP<\/a> server connectivity<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/streaming-server-monitoring.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Play \u00a0streaming media files<\/a> to verify performance and availability outside your network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 id='testing-tools-to-diagnose-website-issues'  id=\"boomdevs_2\">Testing Tools to Diagnose Website Issues<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the free website tests, there are tools that are helpful with troubleshooting website issues such as connectivity, page load speed and other performance related issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/ping-test.aspx\">Ping your servers to detect Network Latency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/online-traceroute-network-latency-test.aspx\">Perform remote traceroutes to see the paths taken to access your site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/DNS-lookup-tools.aspx\">Run DNS traces to traverse the DNS tree from root servers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/blacklist-check-email.aspx\">Check DNSBL to ensure that your email servers are not blacklisted<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='website-test-results'  id=\"boomdevs_3\">Website Test Results<\/h3>\n<p>Each of the free website testing tools provides a number of reports including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A waterfall chart displaying load metrics for individual elements on a page<\/li>\n<li>Load speeds from each of the 22 monitoring locations around the world<\/li>\n<li>A Screenshot of how the actual site renders in the selected browser<\/li>\n<li>A list of average load times and number of errors encounters as well as error codes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id='synthetic-testing'  id=\"boomdevs_4\">Synthetic Testing<\/h3>\n<p>Dotcom-Monitor uses a synthetic monitoring or synthetic testing platform.\u00a0 What this means is that the services utilize automated programs that are queued up and run automatically on the global monitoring network.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit of using synthetic monitoring services is that there is no need for human interaction.\u00a0 Once you queue up a test, it is automatically performed from every monitoring location selected, and the results are automatically generated and either displayed on a real-time web page or emailed to the end user upon completion of the test.\u00a0 If the test is setup to continuously monitor a server on a scheduled frequency, there is no need for a person to pay attention to it unless the test returns an error, at which time the end user will receive an alert.<\/p>\n<p>Try the free website testing tools today (<a href=\"\/\/www.dotcom-tools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.dotcom-tools.com<\/a>)\u00a0to gather benchmarks on your website performance or to help troubleshoot website performance issues.\u00a0 For more detailed results including the ability to monitor multiple sites over time, setup advanced alerts when issues are noticed, and generate historical performance charts, <a href=\"https:\/\/userauth.dotcom-monitor.com\/Account\/SelectSignUpSolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for a free, no obligation trial<\/a> of the full Dotcom-Monitor platform, no 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The Dotcom-Monitor website testing tools allow you to perform a variety of tests on the performance of your own servers from external locations around the world. 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