We are excited to announce the launch of our redesigned public website! The new site is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS.
In addition to updating our stack and design, we’ve also added several new content sections, including this blog and news section, in order to keep you informed about issues related to Testomato and website monitoring. You can subscribe to the blog via RSS to stay up to date.
In this post we will explain our reasons for rebuilding the site and what improvements we’ve made.
Why We Rebuilt
Testomato is a tool that helps our users monitor their websites for any problems that might negatively impact their customers. One of the most crucial problems is performance – speed.
As we explain in response time monitoring, even a 1-second delay in page load time can reduce conversions by up to 7%. It would be hard to take that seriously as a product and ignore it on our own website — especially for a tool that checks your site every 15 seconds, 4x faster than most monitoring tools.
Testomatobot is already a highly efficient toolset and we want to present information efficiently too. Rebuilding as a static site improves speed while giving us the opportunity to modernize the design and present our features more clearly.
What Changed
- Rebuilt as a standalone static site
- Refreshed visual identity
- Added dark theme
- Created new content
Our new content includes pages higlighting the features that are especially useful for certain users, such as Monitoring for SEO experts.
We’ve made it easy to compare Testomato’s features at a glance with 19 competitor comparison pages.
In the sections that follow, we’ll get into more specifics about how we increased our site speed, spruced up our design, and expanded our content.
Increased Speed
The old site shared a codebase with the dashboard application. Every visitor to a marketing page — the homepage, a feature page, and the pricing page — was downloading JavaScript that only mattered inside the logged-in app. That made pages slow to load in a way that was entirely avoidable.
Let’s have a look at the old site’s PageSpeed Insights report, with a focus on Performance scores:
Although the score may not seem so bad, it is within the “Needs Improvement” range for this important, Core Web Vital metric. Not so bad is not good enough for us.
The numbers that matter most are the ones that reflect how visitor’s actually feel when they visit your site. On mobile, the old site’s Largest Contentful Paint was 3.5 seconds: three and a half seconds before the main content appeared on screen.
According to the web.dev documentation, “To provide a good user experience, sites should strive to have Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less.” Our LCP score is about 1 second slower than that recommended maximum, and remember that as we mentioned earlier, even a 1 second delay is enough to negatively impact conversions.
The diagnostics made the cause obvious. The old site shared a codebase with the dashboard application, and it showed — 361 KiB of unused JavaScript was being shipped to every marketing page visitor, including Angular, Vue, and Luxon bundles that only mattered inside the logged-in app.
On top of that, five JavaScript files were blocking the initial render, adding up to 330ms of avoidable delay before the page could even start painting. For a tool that helps customers catch exactly these kinds of performance problems, that was hard to justify.
So how did we make the number go up? Astro.
The new site is a standalone static site — it ships only what a marketing page actually needs. No application code, no framework overhead. No unused Javascript bloating the build.
Testomato monitors website performance for thousands of sites. The least we can do is make sure ours loads fast.
Improved Design
Speed isn’t the only thing that matters. We want our content be loaded quickly but it needs to look good too. Our previous design served our purposes, but it was time to freshen up the presentation.
The new design better expresses the benefits that the product offers users today. We’ve updated the visual identity: a refreshed color palette, cleaner typography, and a hero section that puts the actual dashboard in context rather than describing it abstractly. The goal wasn’t to be flashy but to be clear about Testomato’s core features and use cases.
We’ve added full dark mode support as well. In 2026 this feature is widely expected by all kinds of users - not just developers and devops engineers - and Tailwind makes this very easy to implement. Repeat visits to the site will always load the last theme you’ve set, as expected.
The new site loads fast, looks right, and gets out of the way of the content.
More Content
The rebuild was also an opportunity to add content the old site was missing.
Testomato is used by developers, devops engineers, marketers, SEO specialists, and business owners. Each of those users has different questions and different reasons to care about uptime or response time. Rather than making everyone extract the relevant parts from generic feature pages, the new site has dedicated pages for each audience that speak to their specific use cases.
We built out 19 competitor comparison pages. Most people evaluating a monitoring tool compare several options before committing. We’d rather be part of that conversation with straightforward, factual information than leave it to third-party review sites to fill in the gaps. The comparisons are honest. If another tool is a better fit for a given use case, the pages reflect that.
Closing
We shipped a faster site, a fresher design, and more content. But what matters is whether Testomato is the right tool for monitoring your websites.
If you’re still deciding, the comparison pages give you a side-by-side look at how Testomato stacks up against the alternatives. There are several dedicated pages if you want to understand what monitoring means for your specific role. And if you’re ready to try it, register for a free trial and see for yourself.