Track Site Performance and Optimise Content for Faster Loading

This is a follow on from my previous post in my Ultimate Guide to Web Freelancing. In this post, I’ll be providing you with some resources which should hopefully aide you in your website Search Engine Optimisation reports and general site optimisation or testing. Some of the services may be paid; although the majority, if paid, usually have a free subscription so you can try before you buy. Have a look through the list and see if any take your fancy…

CSS Cleaning & Minify Compression

• http://www.cleancss.com/
• http://cssminifier.com/
• https://github.com/andyedinborough/stress-css
• http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/chrome-dev/

JAVASCRIPT MINIFY COMPRESSION

• http://javascript-minifier.com/

HTML/PHP VALIDATION / CACHING

• https://validator-suite.w3.org/
• http://validator.w3.org/
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• http://www.snipe.net/2009/03/quick-and-dirty-php-caching/
• http://davidwalsh.name/php-cache-function

IMAGE COMPRESSION AND OPTIMISATION

• http://trimage.org/
• http://pngcrush.com/
• http://jpgoptimiser.com/
• http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/

WEB PAGE SPEED TESTING

• http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
• http://www.pingdom.com/
• http://loadimpact.com/
• http://yslow.org/
• http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/gzip/

SEARCH ENGINE KEYWORD + PAGE RANK MONITORING

• http://www.newrelic.com
• http://www.positionly.com

Do you have any of your own suggestions? Let me know in the comments below!