Originally Posted by blazin

These are typically professional development tools. but the performance ones are fairly simple... for a non-techie I would recommend Apache bench... you can run it from a linux server and run it against your different pages... For security I would recommend you use an external service such as Hacker Guardian. https://www.hackerguardian.com

Also take a look at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ which will help you assess various pages on your site from a front end performance perspective.