Related pages
- Chrome Devtools ← See this page for ways to profile your web app, to see how it might be made faster.
Misc
- http://www.growingwiththeweb.com/2014/02/async-vs-defer-attributes.html
- 2015.05.08 - Levels.io - How I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
- 2017.07.26 - Algolia - Improving Web Performance to Mirror Engine Speed
Stress/Load-testing a web app / API
- Tools
- ab / ApacheBench (by Apache) ← CLI
- 2013.11.25 - Digital Ocean - How To Use ApacheBench To Do Load Testing on an Ubuntu 13.10 VPS
- Obviously, these results do not reflect realistic server performance. HTTP is just one piece of the puzzle. A slow templating engine and/or database will drag these numbers down significantly. Still, it gives you a quick ballpark figure for comparison.
- 2013.11.25 - Digital Ocean - How To Use ApacheBench To Do Load Testing on an Ubuntu 13.10 VPS
- The Grinder
- httpperf ← CLI / Linux(?)
- httpress
- http_load
- JMeter (by Apache)
- LoadRunner (by HP)
- OpenSTA ← Looks really old...
- siege
- SoapUI ← One of the more-attractive landing pages (shallow, I know)
- tourbus
- WebLOAD
- weighttp
- ab / ApacheBench (by Apache) ← CLI
- StackOverflow questions on this topic