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Dev tools · March 20, 2020

Fast or Slow

Monitor website performance from 13 locations worldwide.

Fast or Slow launched on March 20, 2020 with 7 votes, #1,267 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Fast or Slow is a website profiling tool providing an accurate, real-world view of site performance from 13 locations around the world. This is the only free site profiling service that gives you a true indication of how the whole world experiences your site.

Almost two years ago the Wordfence team launched FastOrSlow.com as an experiment in providing distributed website performance benchmarking. FastOrSlow was the first-ever free benchmarking tool to test your website performance from 18 locations around the world, using multiple headless chrome browser instances, and it returned the results within a few seconds. FastOrSlow was a really […]

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