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AOL Page Test

Pagetest is an open source tool for measuring and analyzing web page performance right from your web browser. AOL developed Pagetest internally to automate load time measurement of its many...

Resource, Web Page Analysis, AOL Page Test

BrowserMob's monitoring service uses real web browsers to simulate a user interacting with your website, despite being similarly priced to simplistic "ping" style monitoring services that only check individual URLs....

Resource, Web Page Analysis, BrowserMob

CSS Sprite Generator

CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site. Images are combined into one larger image at defined X...

CSS, Resource, Resource Optimization, Sprite Generator

Cuzillion

Cuzillion is a tool for quickly constructing web pages to see how components interact. Browsers have unexpected behavior in everyday situations (for example, inline scripts block all rendering in the...

Resource, Development Tools, Cuzillion

dynaTrace AJAX

dynaTrace AJAX Edition is the most powerful tool for optimizing your Web 2.0 applications. With so much code executing in the browser, it’s getting more and more difficult to keep...

AJAX, JavaScript, dynaTrace, JavaScript Profiling

Fiddler 2

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with...

Resource, Fiddler 2, Web Debugging

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in...

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Resource, Firefox, Firebug, Web Debugging

FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. All data is sent via response headers and will not interfere with the content on...

PHP, Resource, Firefox, Firebug, PHP Profiling, FirePHP

Google Chrome Developer Tools

Tools included in Google Chrome that let you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. You can also use them to optimize web page...

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Google, Resource, Web Page Analysis, Chrome, Developer Tools

Google Closure Compiler

The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code,...

JavaScript, Google, Resource, Closure Compiler, Resource Optimization

Google Closure Tools

Web applications have evolved from simple HTML pages into rich, interactive applications that provide a great user experience. Today's web apps pose a challenge for developers, however: how do you...

JavaScript, Google, Resource, Closure Tools, Development Tools

Google Page Speed

Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source Firefox/Firebug add-on...

Google, Resource, Web Page Analysis, Firefox

Google Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of...

AJAX, Google, Resource, Web Page Analysis, Chrome, Speed Tracer

Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords and Orkut. It's open...

JavaScript, Google, Resource, Development Tools, Web Toolkit, Java

Google WebP

WebP is a new image format that provides lossy compression for photographic images. In a large scale study of 900,000 web images, WebP images were 39.8% smaller than jpeg images...

Google, Resource, Resource Optimization, WebP

Hammerhead

Firebug Add-on for measuring the load time of web pages. Hammerhead makes it easier to gather performance metrics early in the development process, resulting in a faster development cycle. The...

Resource, Firefox, Development Tools, Hammerhead, Firebug

httperf

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not...

Resource, httperf, Performance Benchmarking

HttpWatch

HttpWatch integrates with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers to show you exactly what HTTP traffic is triggered when you access a web page. If you access a site that uses...

Resource, HTTP, Web Debugging, HttpWatch

IBM Page Detailer

IBM Page Detailer is a graphical tool that enables Web site developers and editors to rapidly and accurately assess performance from the client's perspective. IBM Page Detailer provides details about...

Resource, Web Page Analysis, IBM Page Detailer

IntroSpectrum

IntroSpectrum is a web-based performance monitor which simulates users using actual web browsers. This free version will evaluate a single page and show how images, scripts, and other content affect...

Resource, Web Page Analysis, IntroSpectrum

JSLint

JSLint takes a JavaScript source and scans it. If it finds a problem, it returns a message describing the problem and an approximate location within the source. The problem is...

JavaScript, Resource, Resource Optimization, JSLint

JSMin

JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming...

JavaScript, Resource, Resource Optimization, JSMin

Microsoft VRTA

The Visual Round Trip Analyzer tool helps web developers and testers visualize the download of their page, identify best practices and changes that improve web performance. The network Round-Trip between...

Resource, Web Page Analysis, Microsoft VRTA

mon.itor.us

Mon.itor.us is a free, yet powerful website, server and traffic monitoring service. We have established track records of robust execution, alerts delivery and we help many website owners to reach...

AJAX, Resource, Performance Benchmarking, mon.itor.us

OOCSS

Development environment and framework for creating fast, reusable CSS objects and modules. How do you scale CSS for thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions...

CSS, Resource, Development Tools, OOCSS, Github

ORM Designer

ORM Designer is a visual editor for ORM frameworks. ORM Designer helps developers to design application model in a comfortable way and export the model into native ORM Framework definitions....

PHP, Resource, Development Tools, Doctrine, ORM Designer, YML

Pylot

Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system...

Resource, Performance Benchmarking, Pylot, HTTP

Smush It

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a "lossless" tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look...

Resource, Resource Optimization, Smush It, Image Compression, Yahoo!

SpriteMe!

Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There's a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But...

CSS, Resource, Resource Optimization, Sprite Generator, SpriteMe!

Wbox

Performs various tests, including page load benchmarking, web server and web application stress testing, and verifies correct configuration of virtual domains configuration, redirects, and HTTP compression. Wbox aims to help...

Resource, Performance Benchmarking, HTTP, Wbox

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support...

JavaScript, CSS, Firefox, Chrome, Web Debugging, Web Developer

Xdebug

Extension for PHP that provides profiling and code coverage analysis, as well as debugging information including stack and function traces, and memory allocation.

PHP, Resource, Xdebug, PHP Profiling

XHProf by Facebook

XHProf is a hierarchical profiler for PHP. It reports function-level call counts and inclusive and exclusive metrics such as wall (elapsed) time, CPU time and memory usage. A function's profile...

PHP, PHP Profiling, XHProf, Facebook

Yahoo! YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the...

Resource, Web Page Analysis, Firefox, Yahoo!, YSlow

YUI Compressor

The goal of JavaScript and CSS minification is always to preserve the operational qualities of the code while reducing its overall byte footprint (both in raw terms and after gzipping,...

JavaScript, Resource, Resource Optimization, YUI Compressor, Yahoo!

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