Don't get stung!

Don’t get stung :-) Here are some of my favourite tools for web perf and analytics:

Monitoring

Uptimerobot.com - Free tier. 50 monitors. Sends a request every 5 minutes to a website.

Pingdom.com - Free tier. Gives average response times.

Azure Application Insights

Infrastructure

Builtwith.com - eg is this a wordpress site, what webserver etc..

Deadlinkchecker.com This handles redirects well

Sitechecker.pro/tool/crawl-report/ - Chrome plugin too

https://www.deadlinkchecker.com/

https://ahrefs.com/broken-link-checker

https://www.drlinkcheck.com/

XML Sitemap Generator

https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ 500 free page limit

https://pro-sitemaps.com/ The pro version of above

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/overview - What is a sitemap?

Command line tools

Curl

Performance

Apache benchmarks load testing from the command line

JMeter and this video was a useful 10 minute guide.

YSlow for testing webpages as a browser plugin

Lighthouse Chrome extension

Webpagetest.org - scores on perf, compression, caching, CDN

Load Testers

https://www.webpagetest.org/

Security

SSL Labs I found an incomplete SSL Cert security chain using

SecurityHeaders.com and Scott Hanselman post on this

OWASP Zed Attach Proxy (ZAP) pen testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web apps. I’ve only briefly used this and it pointed to the same issues as SecurityHeaders.com above.

Web Accessibility

Guidelines

Lighthouse Chrome extension - this is included in Chrome devceloper extensions now (2021)

Domains and Registration

tld-list.com shows where to get cheap domain names

Cloudflare (not for .co.uk yet) as they charge wholesale if you move domain to them