Best tools for web performance optimization

Before you can even begin thinking of optimizing your application, be it a bespoke web based app or a website, you need to know how fast or how slow it is. This article will give a quick listing of various tools you use to measure your application.

Selection of the best tools to analyse, monitor and improve loading time of your website or app

We have listed the best loading time tools that cover the real user experience and cover CDNs. We look at the best tools for optimization of Images, followed by CSS and HTML, then Javascript, PHP, Apache and finish of with MySQL. Here the full list:

• Best tools to measure real loading times
• Caching Distribution Networks & Site accelerators
• Best tools for image optimization
• Best tools for HTML & CSS optimization
• Best tools for JavaScript optimization
• Best tools for PHP, MySQL and Apache optimization

The different sections have attempted to list the best tools which you can use to measure, analyze and improve the performance of your apps or website. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it provides a very solid starting point. There are many other tools out there, and new ones will keep on being developed and current ones improved.

So be sure to keep checking this website to stay up to date.

Hard core? Here are some external resources you might find interesting.

• http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#MONITORING
• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/using-new-query-profiler.html