GTmetrix vs Pingdom vs StatusCake

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GTmetrix

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Pingdom

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StatusCake

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Pros of GTmetrix
Pros of Pingdom
Pros of StatusCake
  • 1
    Free to use
  • 224
    Simple and reliable
  • 103
    Monitoring your websites
  • 75
    Easy to use dashboard
  • 65
    Email, text & twitter alerts
  • 43
    Free tier
  • 23
    Performance data
  • 14
    Detailed Reports
  • 11
    Email Reports
  • 9
    Mobile App
  • 9
    Root Cause Analysis
  • 1
    30-day risk free trial
  • 1
    Easy setup
  • 1
    IOS app
  • 14
    Easy to use and reliable
  • 12
    Free tier
  • 6
    Public Reporting
  • 4
    Domain monitoring
  • 3
    Cheaper
  • 3
    SSL Certificate Monitoring
  • 3
    No false positives
  • 3
    Group Notification
  • 2
    Great Customer Support
  • 1
    WhoIs Domain Monitoring
  • 1
    Real Browser Testing
  • 1
    Malware and Virus Scanning
  • 1
    Multiple User Accounts
  • 1
    Mobile App
  • 1
    Full Featured API

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Cons of GTmetrix
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      Expensive
    • 3
      UI is incredibly complicated
    • 2
      Hard to set up alerts properly
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      What is GTmetrix?

      It gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it. It is a free tool that analyzes your page's speed & performance.

      What is Pingdom?

      Pingdom is an uptime monitoring service. When problems happen with a site that Pingdom monitors, it immediately alerts the owner so the problem can be taken care of.

      What is StatusCake?

      Monitoring a website is one thing – finding the best way to alert you to downtime another. At StatusCake we give you as many options as possible to decide when & how often you’re contacted. Whether it’s by email, SMS, push notifications for iOS & Android or integration with third party apps including Zapier and PagerDuty – you decide how you want to be alerted and when!

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