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The speed index was invented for benchmarking this: https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/using-webpag...



Ah, very cool, thanks for sharing. I'm familiar with a lot of the tools for evaluating the performance of a single site (e.g., that I'm developing), but I'm pretty ignorant of the standard approaches for these types of larger scale benchmarking projects.


If you're developing you may not be aware of Page Speed Insights, extremely handy for SEO. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/


I actually wasn't aware that the site could also perform the test, but the Page Speed Insights Chrome extension is one of my go-to performance tools. The output looks the same, though formatted a little better in some places. The extension is nice though, because it lets you check private sites.




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