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Tools, books, docs, blogs and conferences:

• What is my IP?
• Progressive download and media test using a flash player
• Is this server an Akamai server?
• List of tools on GigaOM
• Browser and cache testing pages
• PHP test page
• Javascript test page
• Browser side monitoring
• PHP Parameter extraction
• IFRAME test page
• IFRAME 3rd party cookie set
• IFRAME 3rd party cookie, delete then set
• Setting cookies
• End user and proxy IP information
• Random redirect
• Client side broken image detection

• Steve Souders - books and blog - Lots of information about frontend performance
• HttpWatch - Watch what's happening in your browser. While you're doing it. View the HTTP requests.
• HttpFox - Similar to HttpWatch
• YSlow - Firebug plugin from Yahoo! to analyse your pages according to Steve's rules. He's now at Google
• Google Pagespeed - Google's answer to YSlow!
• Firebug - Firefox web development plugin
• Web Developer - Web development plugin for Firefox
• Fiddler2 - Web debugging proxy to look at your HTTP requests.
• FiddlerCap - Like Fiddler2, but just captures the HTTP requests. Useful for replicating problems and sending the information to support staff
• Charles - Web debugging proxy
• Wireshark - Network protocol analyzer. When the problem is so bizarre you have to see what's happening on the wire.
• Caching tutorial at www.mnot.net
• Velocity 2010 - O'Reilly conference about web performance, front, back and side end.
• HTTP Response codes at Google
• Pagetest - server and desktop based page testing tool