Chrome DevTools incorporates many sub-tools for debugging web applications on the client side — like recording performance profiles and inspecting animations — most of which you’ve likely been using since your early days of learning web development, mostly through the DevTools console. Let’s loo...
Optimizing websites for speed is a craft, and each craft requires tools. The most-used website optimization tools are GTmetrix, YSlow and Pingdom Tools. GTmetrix is a rather advanced tool that offers a lot on its free tier, but it also offers premium tiers. If you sign up, you can compare multiple websites, multiple ve...
This article is part of a series on building a sample application — a multi-image gallery blog — for performance benchmarking and optimizations. (View the repo here.)As we can see in this report, our site’s landing page loads very quickly and generally scores well, but it could use another layer of ...
Cloudflare is an industry leader in the content-delivery space, reducing load and speeding up millions of websites.What is peculiar about this provider is that it didn’t start as speed-up/performance tool, but was instead born from Project Honeypot, which was conceived as a spam and hacking protection service. ...
On top of the infrastructure of the internet — or the physical network layers — sits the Internet Protocol, as part of the TCP/IP, or transport layer. It’s the fabric underlying all or most of our internet communications. A higher level protocol layer that we use on top of this is the application laye...
Bootstrap comes packed with tons of ready-to-use jQuery-powered plugins. The beauty of Bootstrap’s plugins is that you can slot them into your project, write the appropriate markup using data- attributes, and the JavaScript kicks in automatically. No need to write any JavaScript code. There may be times when you’d ...
This article was originally published on mongoDB. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The developer landscape has dramatically changed in recent years. It used to be fairly common for us developers to run all of our tools (databases, web servers, development IDEs…) on our own machines, ...
When dealing with performance, it’s hard to remember all the tools that might help you out during development. For that purpose, we’ve compiled a list of 23 performance tools for your reference. Some you’ll have heard of, others probably not. Some have been covered in detail in our performance month, ...
This article was originally published on OKTA Developer Blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. AngularJS reigned as king of JavaScript MVC frameworks for several years. However, when the Angular team announced they would not provide backwards compatibility for their next version, there...
The following is a short extract from our new book, JavaScript: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition, written by Darren Jones. It’s the ultimate beginner’s guide to JavaScript. SitePoint Premium members get access with their membership, or you can buy a copy in stores worldwide. It is a tradition when learning pro...
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