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Dareboost was a website speed test and monitoring service; it has been discontinued and replaced by Contentsquare's Speed Analysis.

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Last updated: 11 November 2026 (page expanded from the official site and docs).

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Status note (checked 11 November 2026): Dareboost has been discontinued. Its website states that it has been replaced by Speed Analysis, part of the Contentsquare offering.

Introduction

Dareboost was a French website speed test, analysis and monitoring service that audited pages against dozens of quality and performance rules and tracked loading times over time. Its website now states that Dareboost has been discontinued and replaced by Speed Analysis, part of the Contentsquare offering, which combines synthetic monitoring with real user monitoring.

The legacy pages still describe what Dareboost did: an insightful audit of a website’s quality with dozens of optimisation tips, continuous web performance monitoring without installation, weekly email reports, and website speed comparison against competitors.

CheckOps keeps this page for readers who find Dareboost in older articles. For new work, use Contentsquare’s Speed Analysis if you are a Contentsquare customer, or a standalone performance tool from the alternatives.

If you relied on Dareboost’s competitor comparison feature, note that tools such as DebugBear and SpeedCurve also let you monitor competitor pages, while PageSpeed Insights can show real-user Core Web Vitals for any public site with enough traffic.

Features

  1. Speed test and audit (legacy): Page analysis with optimisation tips.
  2. Performance monitoring (legacy): Scheduled checks with dashboards and weekly reports.
  3. Competitor comparison (legacy): Compare loading speed with competitors.
  4. Successor: Contentsquare Speed Analysis, with synthetic and real user monitoring.

Pros

  1. Clear successor: Customers have a documented migration path within Contentsquare.

Cons

  1. Discontinued: Dareboost itself is no longer offered.
  2. Successor is part of a larger suite: Speed Analysis is sold within Contentsquare’s platform.

Former Dareboost users should move monitoring to Contentsquare Speed Analysis or to a standalone tool such as DebugBear, GTmetrix or SpeedCurve, re-creating the same pages and schedules so trends remain comparable. When comparing monitoring tools, run the same two or three critical pages or journeys in each trial for a couple of weeks, from the regions where your users are, and compare alert quality, false positives, data retention and the total price at your required check frequency.

Pricing

Not available; Dareboost is discontinued. See Contentsquare for Speed Analysis pricing.

  • Former Dareboost users planning migration
  • Readers researching the history of web performance tools

Conclusion

Dareboost has been discontinued and replaced by Contentsquare Speed Analysis. Use this listing as a pointer to its successor and to active alternatives.

Alternatives

Other tools on CheckOps that cover similar ground. Open a page, or compare one with DareBoost side by side.