How do I test my website speed for free?

You can test your site’s speed properly without paying anything - the best tools are free and come straight from Google. Start here:

• PageSpeed Insights - paste your URL and get both a lab score and real-visitor field data, with Core Web Vitals and a prioritised list of fixes. This is the one to start with.
• Chrome DevTools Lighthouse - press F12 on any page, open the Lighthouse tab, and run an audit yourself for a deeper lab report.
• web.dev - Google’s free guides explain each warning and how to fix it in plain terms.

Always test your busiest pages, not just the homepage, and read the mobile column first - that is where most visitors and most problems are. Run PageSpeed Insights on mobile, fix the top three opportunities, and re-test; that loop covers most of what matters.