Category Archives: Resources
Website Analysis
So you’ve finished off designing your website now its time to get on with optimizing your website for speed and loading times. To help with the analysis of your website I spent many hours trawling the internet for the best website to analyse my website. Well here are my 2 favourites.
GTMetrix – (http://www.gtmetrix.com)
GTMetrix.com is a advanced website allowing everything on your website to be assessed using Google’s Pagerank and Yahoo’s YSlow algorithm’s. GTMetrix also gives you tips on how to optimize those to gain the best rated website.
After spending a couple of hours optimizing my website my website speeded up its loading times by approximately 5 seconds. I also improved my SEO and upgraded my rating on both Google’s Pagerank and Yahoo’s Yslow.
Pingdom Tools – (http://www.pingdom.com)
While searching I also found Pingdom.com which shows a detailed view of the connection and loading times of each individual file. Using this I was able to find out which files were taking the longest and in the case of the javascript. Optimize their loading sequences.
Pingdom Tools also shows you when each file is loaded this can give you the view of files that load simulataneously.
CSS Sprite Generator
Name: CSS-Sprites
URL: http://www.css-sprit.es
During my search for improving my Page Rank and YSlow scores, I came across this site. CSS-Sprites has a easy to use interface with the ability to upload multiple images with ease unlike other comparable websites. CSS-Sprites not only allows you generate the image but during the generation CSS-Sprites creates the required CSS code and allows generation of a roll over effect on the images for use with buttons. Best of all its completely FREE.
