Google PageSpeed Insights vs. SolarWinds Pingdom

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google PageSpeed Insights
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Google PageSpeed Insights is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.N/A
SolarWinds Pingdom
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.
$14.95
per month
Pricing
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Synthetic Monitoring
$10
per month
Real User Monitoring
$10
per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
Considered Both Products
Google PageSpeed Insights
Chose Google PageSpeed Insights
Google's approach is a little different from competing services like WebPageTest and pingdom by providing Google-specific benchmarks. Their interface is a bit simpler and well-suited to more novice and intermediate site owners. Advanced users will prefer the granular data and …
SolarWinds Pingdom
Chose SolarWinds Pingdom
The detailed reporting and website uptime monitoring is something other tools don't provide. You don't want to get a call from a client or customer that your site is down, or lose sales if it brings in sales to you.
You get recommendations on how to enhance the page performance, …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Google PageSpeed Insights
7.5
5 Ratings
3% below category average
SolarWinds Pingdom
-
Ratings
Keyword analysis6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Page grader7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analysis5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Site recommendations9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Task management6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Google PageSpeed Insights
6.3
5 Ratings
19% below category average
SolarWinds Pingdom
-
Ratings
Local SEO5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Social SEO5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile SEO9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Global SEO5.43 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Google PageSpeed Insights
8.6
3 Ratings
2% above category average
SolarWinds Pingdom
-
Ratings
Multi-domain support9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
7.2
(65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
7.2
(54 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google PageSpeed InsightsSolarWinds Pingdom
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
If you notice your site is taking a long time to load, then you should first use PageSpeed Insights to see what can quickly be optimized (also check your file sizes, hosting server, NGINX and other common sources of slow speed, too.) And, if you've notice gradually fewer Organic Search visits, PageSpeed Insights might be able to help. As Google is reducing the prevalence of slow sites, you could be losing traffic. Speed up your page load times by finding what is blocking renders, slowing down contentful paints, and other critical page speed signals.
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SolarWinds
I believe the scenarios we used it for were quite well covered, from the executive perspective. The downtime alarms worked very well and were easy to setup, uptime monitoring tools were clear and easy to use, even for non-technical people (C-level) and the SLA management tools allowed us to spend less time, and have less friction, with our clients
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Pros
Google
  • Measure page loading time
  • Compared loading times against Google's benchmarks
  • Identifies opportunities for web page performance improvements
  • Identifies sub-optimal web page attributes that slow down page loading
  • Compare performance on mobile and desktop devices easily
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SolarWinds
  • The alerts are very responsive offering quite detailed timing information
  • The UI for reports is very clear and set up of reports is very intuitive
  • Customer service was good when there were problems - e.g. lapsing billing causing reporting to go down
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Cons
Google
  • The suggestions for improvement can be technical for non-developers.
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SolarWinds
  • The PagerDuty integration could be a lot better. When you use the PagerDuty integration, it doesn't send any information about which check failed! It just sends a message like "Timeout (> 30s)" -- this isn't very helpful when we have hundreds of checks. We've worked around this by using both the PagerDuty and Slack integrations and having them both post to the same Slack channel. But this means that when an engineer is paged from PagerDuty, they have to go to Slack (or Pingdom) to find the details about the page; it's not available on the page itself.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
Recently added features have made Pingdom less intuitive for our requirements. While Pingdom has a broad offering and remains a good value, it is becoming more than we need. Our customer base is becoming more and more global and Pingdom still lacks Asia-Pacific monitoring, which we will need within a year.
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Usability
Google
It's a free, easy to use tool
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SolarWinds
Pingdom is easy to use, very intuitive and has a very short learning curve. From the onset, we've been able to jump in and leverage the tool to accomplish our goals for page speed performance and discover the insights we need to make improvements. Its a well-designed tool and makes for a good user experience.
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Performance
Google
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly.
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Support Rating
Google
There is no support from Google for the tool.
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SolarWinds
Support responded the same day to my query, as I was setting the product up but couldn't find the setting I needed. This was successfully resolved in a short time frame, so I was pleased with how quickly we were able to get this resolved. I haven't needed to contact support since.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
I think GTmetrix has some feedback that PageSpeed doesn't provide, but Google's tool is easier overall and has a better user experience; also offers compressed images, CSS, and javascript files if that's the case. Also, Google has extensive documentation to help you better understand what can be done to improve your grade.
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SolarWinds
  1. PRTG Network Monitor was a far more complicated tool to use and set up albeit it does both Internal and External monitoring. The setup wasn't intuitive and there are too many configuration options to complete to form an alert
  2. Amazon CloudWatch is specific to AWS resources and cannot be easily use outside of the AWS Ecosystem
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Faster loading site, give results faster to visitors
  • Buyers can get to the end of the buying cycle faster
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SolarWinds
  • Honestly, we have 4 other products that overlap this functionality whose organizations provide far superior support. At this point it is an unnecessary expense.
  • In my opinion, their lack of support responsiveness and commitment has impacted our IT agility.
  • Its time to explore other alternatives.
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