I love YSlow for Firebug/Firefox, but I’ve hit a situation where I want to profile an HTTPS site, that doesn’t physically work outside of IE6/7 (e.g. no IE8, no Firefox, no Chrome)
Fixing the site to work in all browsers is officially Step #1, but to do some analysis and benchmark the existing site (which will help in reporting overall goal achievement) I really need to be able to profile the existing site.
In particular the info I’m looking for is:
- Overall page speed
- Static content (what images, css, js files) are cached, minimized, gzipped
- Counts/locations of slow CSS (e.g. usage of CSS Expressions)
- Cookie info
- Image sizes
- Duplicate scripts/css
- File sizes
etc.
Without a specific do-all tool, are there specific tools that will help me solve part(s) of the puzzle.
e.g.
- I have Fiddler2 set up… which will give me HTTP(S) sessions, headers, requests, filesizes, gzipping, etc.
- I have a bookmarklet or two that will tally up duplicate scripts/css
- I have the IE7 developer tools installed so that I can view the HTML and inspect things
Using the above I can extract most of the info and then tally up my own “score”/checklist of things that need attention however it is a fair amount of work. 🙁
Does anyone have some better tools for this?
Is there a YSlow-like tool for IE7??
I just came accross MSFAST, a new addon from MySpace Performance team
http://msfast.myspace.com/
It does performance analysis and there is a YSLOW quotation system.