What is DareBoost?
Dareboost is an SEO tool very useful for getting an insightful audit of your website. The tool offers dozens of optimization suggestions to help you increase the quality, speed, and performances of your website.
How To Use DareBoost? (Features)
- Performance Test – With DareBoost, you can easily test the speed of your website within a very short span of time. In the same report, you will get data about major indicators, user experience, and technical performance. The testing procedure and result providing procedure are also effective as here you will get the benefits of video replay with interactive waterfall.
- Web page analysis – It can help you with easy web page optimization. In your just one click, more than 130 quality control checking can be done. You can improve your SEO team efficiency with its detailed guidelines.
- Customization and advanced advice – It can detect the utilized technologies of a website. And according to the website’s context, instantly DareBoost can create and adjust the optimization. In order to solve the resolution of issues, the user gets detailed guidelines offered by it and can easily implement without entertaining any hiccup in the way.
Monitoring
DareBoost has a monitoring feature that will do a daily check of a given webpage, tracking its load speed over time. The monitoring feature will send you email alerts if the page is performing below a certain treshold (which you can specify) and will generate graphs over time:
The graph above only shows a limited dataset, as I’ve only been using the tool for just over a week. The monitoring function is a great feature that allows you to see progress – or lack thereof – over time, as well as identify regular instances that affect page load speed (for example, when a backup runs or when the site experiences traffic spikes).
Pros (Advantages)
- Fast and single-click service – You do not need to visit tabs and filling all the file uploading demands. Just a single click can offer you a complete and error-free result.
- Installation-free process – Most of the services start after installation but DareBoost prefers to not waste important time.
- High Performance – Better and faster than a regular bot. Highly configurable and realistic tests are allowed.
Cons (Disadvantages)
- Force paid service – In free mode, you will get limited features. To have more, you may have to take the paid services.
- A typical problem is live – Just like other market available tools, it too can take a while to rightly get the site speed. It is a typical problem and there is no solution to it.
- Needs little bit improvement – And in the future versions, the waterfall view needs to be improved.
How Much It Costs? (Pricing)
Conclusion
DareBoost has a few drawbacks that I think need to be addressed. Most urgently, the number of locations from which you can run a test needs to be expanded. Allowing you to do tests from many different locations is WebPageTest.org’s greatest draw, and DareBoost will need to offer more if it wants to draw users away from the established tools. DareBoost does offer bespoke packages that will provide you with custom test locations, which may be a good option to explore for businesses that have the cash and need a great speed monitoring tool.
The waterfall view in DareBoost can also be improved, which is on their radar so I expect this to be addressed in future versions.
In terms of advantages over its free rivals, DareBoost has many indeed. Its tests are more comprehensive, the recommendations more useful, the comparison option is fantastic and the daily monitoring feature is superb.
On top of that, it’s very affordable. The basic package starts at $9/month, and the full premiuim suite – which I used for this test – doesn’t set you back more than $79/month. To me, that’s a very attractive price tag for what is already a great tool that I see myself using on an almost daily basis.
