One of the most important metrics in Google, which affects a website's search engine ranking, is the speed of the website. Although there are many other factors, which help to increase the visibility of a site, a site has its own meaning. What are you using all your efforts for, you undertake, when users cannot see, what's on your website? And, The speed of a website is very important from the perspective of searchers and search engines. Any user, that comes to your website, doesn't stay there long, when charging takes longer.
You can analyze the speed of your website with available tools like Pingdom and Google PageSpeed Insights. When testing page speed, there are two things: the loading time (for Pingdom) and the time to interaction (for Google PageSpeed).
But the question is, which of the two is better? Let's dive a little deeper, to understand this.
Pingdom is a great tool, that offers a good amount of data and transparency. The measurements of a page speed are saved as “Ping time” and this term is often used to describe the waiting time. Other tools do not allow us to identify the real source, but Pingdom tells us. Here is explained, where the actual servers are located. It is obvious, that a website, that is miles away from a user, can have a long ping time. You don't just learn, where the server is located, but can also choose, which server you want to use for a speed test.
Everyone wants to use the tool provided by Google, since the ultimate and most important goal is that, rank high on Google. It is believed, that the Google tool provides more precise data than any other, as it better understands the important Google ranking metrics.
When we talk about it, which of these two tools is better for a website, the answer is always both. Neither of these is better than the other. Everyone knows, that Google PageSpeed is mainly used, because it is a product offered by Google and Pingdom is used for this, Closing gaps.