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2012
Web Application Load Testing Tools For API Endpoints With loader.io
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
A load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.
steelThread/redmon - GitHub
by Xavier Lacot
A nifty graphical interface for monitoring the usage of Redis instances
2011
Mobile Perf bookmarklet
by ghis
"Web development on mobile devices is especially challenging. The debuggers and profilers we use on the desktop aren't available. Bookmarklets are a good alternative. They're lightweight and work on most browsers - even mobile browsers. But installing bookmarklets in mobile browsers is a pain. You could try to find all the good bookmarklets out there and install them one by one. Or...
Just install the Mobile Perf bookmarklet!"
phpmemcacheadmin - Project Hosting on Google Code
by Xavier Lacot
Graphic stand-alone administration for memcached to monitor and debug purpose
Navigation Timing
by Xavier Lacot
This brand new specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. When implemented, this will help track web pages frontend performance.
this, is boomerang
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other
boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. It allowsto measure the round-trip time, bandwith usage and latency.
2010
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD
by Xavier Lacot & 8 others
A tiny js tool which allows to lad scripts in parrallel, thus enabling a better frontend performance
CPU limit
by Xavier Lacot
cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time)
2009
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » A New Memory Tool for the Web
by Xavier Lacot
When the web developer's life will begin to be at a memory level, we'll start seeing disappear crappy web apps. And crappy webdevs.
Jet Profiler for MySQL
by Xavier Lacot & 2 others
"Jet Profiler for MySQL is real-time query performance and diagnostics tool for the MySQL database server". I love the Query ratings feature and the live query observation - should replace the weak use of MySQL proxy.
2008
SmartSprites: CSS Sprite Generator Done Right
by greut
SmartSprites is a tool that will let you easily introduce and maintain CSS sprites in your designs. SmartSprites parses special directives you can insert into your original CSS to mark individual images to be turned into sprites. It then builds sprite images from the collected images and automatically inserts the required CSS properties to your style sheet, so that the sprites are used instead of the individual images.
sprites for the lazy
Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool
by greut & 3 others
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 tuning.
2007
Yslow
by Hieroglyphe & 21 others
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
2006
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