Get the skinny on your home or business Internet throughput with this FREE tool from Speakeasy.com. Great for broadband users looking to know when ‘the road is clear’. Provides both downstream and upstream results with a nifty speedometer graph and multiple locations.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

To find out how long it takes for each object (HTML, Images, Plugins and more) to load on a particular page of your website, Pingdom Tools provides a comprehensive, FREE tool. The loading of each object is delineated by Start, Connect, First byte, Last byte which makes this an excellent resource for discerning load-time issues.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/