Hi there,

Recently I came across some cool new tools along with some of my old favorites and thought this calls for a quick post -

Front End Profiling Tool:

FireBug: Firebug is pretty handy to find out how long it is taking your website to load and render as well as how many header calls are made to fetch external java-script and css files. It also packs lots of useful tools and a must have for any serious web application developer.

YSlow:YSlow sort of gives your an easy to understand report on your web pages flaws and how to overcome them.

Web Server Stress Testing Tool:

Siege: Siege is a command line tool that you can install and simulate concurrent hits to any particular URL.

Example:

siege -c 10 -r 10 http://www.mydomain.com/

Above code pings the URL concurrently with 10 connections repeating 10 times making 100 hits to the URL.

MySQL database Profiling Tool:

Jet Profiler:Jet profiler Shows the real time activity of the connected mysql database once its hooked up. It is pretty useful when used together with the siege tool and see how concurrent hits affect the database.

Naturally these are not all that is out there so any new inputs from the readers will be most welcomed

thanks,

faisal ahmed

web application developer
web: http://www.faisalbd.com/
email: thephpx(at)gmail(dot)com