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List of Free Site Performance Tools

Posted: May 3rd, 2010 | Filed under: Developer Tools, IIS & HTTP, Performance Tools, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: , , , ,

If you are a site owner, webmaster or a web author, here are some free tools that you can use to evaluate and improve the speed of your site:

Firefox / Firebug Add-ons: 

  • YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
  • Page Speed, a free tool from Google that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
  • Hammerhead - a free tool to measure the load time of web pages.

 Online Testing: 

Development Tools:

  • CSS Sprite Generator - Generates a CSS sprite out of a number of images.
  • Smush It - Online tool that allows you to upload images for lossless compression and optimization. Provides a report of bytes saved and downloads a zip file containing the optimized versions of the files.

 Additional Script:

  • In Google Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world.

 Looking for more free tools? Check out Google’s list.

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5 Markup Optimization Tips

Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Filed under: Developer Tools, Performance Tools, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: ,

Typical markup is either very tight, hand-crafted and standards-focused, filled with comments and formatting white space, or it is bulky, editor-generated markup with excessive indenting, editor-specific comments often used as control structures, and even redundant or needless markup or code. Neither case is optimal for delivery. The following tips are safe and easy ways to decrease file size: Read the rest of this entry »

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Leech Bandits on the Loose!

Posted: June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: Developer Tools, IIS & HTTP, Web Design, Development, & Usability | Tags: , , , ,

Leech Bandits on the Loose!
And What You Can Do to Stop Them

What is Leeching?

Leeching. Inline linking. Hotlinking. Bandwidth theft. Sometimes it is even called direct linking or confused with deep linking. Whatever the term, if a third party site is requesting your files and presenting them on their Web site, you are paying for the bandwidth while they use your content as their own. Read the rest of this entry »

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Online Screencasts Are Here

Posted: January 8th, 2009 | Filed under: Developer Tools, Performance Tools, Web Security Tools | Tags:

We know, you’ve all been waiting for this moment… We here at Port80 have pulled together some overview Screencasts of our products, including the most recent release of ServerMask 4.1.1, not yet a month old!

Check them out at www.port80software.com/screencasts

Cheers!

Jenny @ Port80

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