Links

Check out the links section for a selection of useful URLs covering vital site performance optimization issues. Read the tips and make your site faster without doing major work.

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Useful site performance analyzing and optimizing tools

IT Scales: A pioneering web performance tool.
pingdom.com: A handy web performance measurer. Multithreading is supported, but Keep-Alive and on-the-fly HTML parsing are not.
WEBOptimization: This tool loads a page with all its items and tries to estimate speed gains with this or that compression method. Lots of site optimization articles here too.
WebWait.com: Very simple, but quite useful tool. Frame-based site loading stopwatch.
YSlow: 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.
WebLOAD: Open source load testing for web applications. Supports scripting, can act as proxy to analyze live traffic.
Web site test tools and site management tools: More than 390 tools listed in 12 categories.

Web performance tips and tricks

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site: Great article from Yahoo.com developers. Covers all aspects of site performance, from server to browser. Updated regularly.
Optimizing Page Load Time: This article investigates the role of size of HTTP requests and objects in site performance.
Caching Tutorial: All you wanted to know about HTTP/1.1 caching.

Various helpful webmaster tools and articles

.htaccess tutorial: A lot of various examples of using .htaccess.
Free webmaster tools from iWEBTOOLS: Pack of useful webmaster tools. Deal with search engines, domains, html pages and many other stuff.
CSS Compressor: This tool attempts to compress CSS files combining identical parameters, converting colors to RGB or hex, removing redundant values etc. Not as strong as a human developer, but this tool does help in many cases.
Six Revisions: Very helpful blog for webdevelopers - a lot of articles and links to useful tools.