Time for another update on my progress on making HippoValidator the best website validator out there. I just pushed a major update including a lot of features and fixes. The most important ones are listed below. JSHint HippoValidator already validated some aspects of the JavaScript on your site. But a validator dedicated to writing good… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Performance optimization
YSlow rule #9 – Make JavaScript and CSS External
We’ve briefly touched this subject a number of times already. Making your JavaScript and CSS external simply means moving it from your HTML header to their own files, referenced as an external file in the header. So why does Yahoo think that this is a good idea? We’ve already discussed the possibility to cache resources… Read more »
Finally! Google makes a Page Speed API
A lot of new stuff is released by Google these days. The Google I/O conference typically means a bunch of new products and API’s and this year are no different. In regards to performance optimization, I was very happy to discover a new Page API earlier today. That’s right, folks! A new and shiny API,… Read more »
YSlow rule #1 – Minimize HTTP Requests
In the following twenty-two posts, I will look into all the rules in YSlow. This is a pretty comprehensive plan, but I will try to keep the posts short and precise. All rules are pretty good documented in the YSlow documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. I will try to give you my point of view and experiences… Read more »
Google Webmaster Tools – What’s your site performance?
In the last three posts, I’ve looked at tools for optimizing performance on a website. This week I will show you a nice performance-related feature in Google Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools is a free tool from Google that provides different tools for webmasters, such as submitting a sitemap, generating a robots.txt, and other stuff…. Read more »
Google Speed Tracer – The alternative with potential
In the two previous posts, I’ve covered different plugins for Firefox. Even though web developers still seem to prefer Firefox over Chrome, a lot of us (me inclusive) switched to Chrome. Luckily Google does a pretty decent performance optimization extension for Chrome as well. The extension is Google Speed Tracer. You will find it at Google Code… Read more »
Google Page Speed – the YSlow clone
Page Speed is a plug-in developed for Firebug by Google. If you don’t use Firebug, get it (http://getfirebug.com/)! It’s the coolest web developer plug-in for Firefox out there. The Page Speed tool is downloaded from http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html. Google Page Speed is very similar to Yahoo!’s YSlow, which I talked about in my previous blog post. I don’t say that competition… Read more »
YSlow – your new best friend
The first tool that you should definitely check out is YSlow from Yahoo. YSlow is a plug-in for Firebug, which is a must-have for all web developers. You can find the Firebug plug-in here: http://getfirebug.com/ and the YSlow plug-in here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/. Firebug is activated by clicking the small bug icon in the bottom right part… Read more »
Free tools to check your performance
So how do you spot if your site has performance issues or not? You probably have an idea if your site is responsive or not, but how does it compare to other sites, and which potential problems do you have? This is a starter’s guide to some of the tools I’ve used for the job…. Read more »
Why optimize your website?
So why do I need to think about the performance of my website, you might think. Well, maybe you don’t. If you’re making a niche website, which exports a large data set to XML, the user probably doesn’t mind if the transaction spans four or ten seconds. But chances are that you’re actually doing something… Read more »
