Web Development Tools

The following 3-party tools are useful for anyone building and maintaining websites. Minification can make a big difference in the performance of your site, and the user experience, but it cal also have a very big impact on your site's ranking.

Website Availability:

1. Uptime robot can monitor your site and alert you if it becomes unavailable, a free plan is available.
2. Dead link checker can notify you of broken broken links on your site

Images and favicons

1. Unsplash has a lot of Royalty-free photos
2. Ico Convert to convert any image into an Icon .ico file

Minimizing Text

1. HTML compressor, an awesome online tool, with a great drag and drop interface, works on HTML, CSS, and JS

Image Compression

1. Image optim removes bloated metadata. Saves disk space & bandwidth by compressing images without losing quality
2. Google Guetzli image compressor Guetzli-generated images are typically 20-30% smaller than images of equivalent quality generated by libjpeg. Guetzli generates only sequential (nonprogressive) JPEGs due to the faster decompression speeds they offer.
3. RIOT Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) This is a free image optimizer that will let you visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize. However, this is a Windows-only application, available as a portable executable.
4. Squoosh is an image compression web app that allows you to dive into the advanced options provided by various image compressors.

Website Optimization

1. Web page test is the absolute best tool to analyze the load time of all components of a web page
2. Page speed insights, another good tool as well from Google
3. Critical path CSS generator/ CSS Critical Path Generator
4. Web Check, An all-in-one OSINT tool for analyzing any website
5. The ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO toolset with several free features.
6. Web-Check, a comprehensive, on-demand open-source intelligence for any website.
   

Load Testing

1. wrk - a Modern HTTP benchmarking tool - wrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load when run on a single multi-core CPU. It combines a multithreaded design with scalable event notification systems such as epoll and kqueue.
2. Locust - An open-source load testing tool. Define user behavior with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users.
3. Boomer is a better load generator for locust, written in golang. It can spawn thousands of goroutines to run your code concurrently. It will listen and report to the locust master automatically, and your test results will be displayed on the master's web UI.

Sitemap

1. Maintaining a sitemap.xml file is very important for your site, this tool can help you make sure that it is correct: XML Formatter.
2. Online tool to ping search engines: https://www.prepostseo.com/ping-multiple-urls-online