lapthorn.com - Tools and testing page

• What is my IP?
• Progressive download and media test using a flash player
• Is this server an Akamai server?
• Test progressive download video (FLV - Bare link)
• List of tools on GigaOM
• Browser and cache testing pages
• PHP test page
• Javascript test page
• PHP Parameter extraction
• IFRAME test page
• Setting cookies
• End user and proxy IP information
• CDN Tokens
• CDN Token Testing Staging Production
• Random redirect

Tools, books, docs, blogs and conferences:

• 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.
• Charles - Web debugging proxy
• Wireshark - Network protocol analyze, when you really, really need to know what's happening on the wires
• 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

Flash stuff

• Adobe RTMP protocol tests (These tests don't appear to be as reliable as they used to be. I suspect their Flash Media Server is offline)
• Check version of installed Flash Player

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