1. Pingdom: Pingdom is available as a Web tool or a mobile application on most smartphones. Pingdom will notify you when your blog is not working properly or is down completely. Also, Pingdom can be used as a way to take a general overview of the performance of your blog. This tool will evaluate the loading speed of several important objects of a Website such as HTML, images, RSS, and CSS. Pingdom is useful for any user with graphical representations of loading times for the various elements of your Website. For individuals desiring successful and profitable blogs or Websites, Pingdom is an essential tool to utilize.

2. WebWait: As a simple way to check the average waiting time each visitor to your site has to face, WebWait is a great tool for any person hoping to provide a top notch Website for their audience. With an incredibly intuitive interface and easy to understand results, any blogger or Webmaster can use this tool to improve their Website´s performance. WebWait also provides a toolbar so that you can quickly and easily test your Website´s speed. This tool will give you the average waiting time as well as the median times and the standard deviation values.

3. Webslug: Similar to WebWait, this tool has one added feature that can really help with optimizing your Website. Use Webslug to compare the speed of your Website to the speed of your competitor´s Website. You can use this tool to better gauge where your Website or blog falls within the competition. Because the Web is such a vast world, there are no doubt dozens (if not hundreds or thousands) of Websites that are dedicated to the same thing as yours. This fact is partially why niche blogging is so successful. Because your site is rarely going to be completely unique to the Web, you have to make certain that it performs at the top of the list if you want it to be successful. Use Webslug to pinpoint which pages are causing you the most technical difficulties and to see where you fall among your competition.