Website Optimization
There are many factors and moving parts that make a dynamic website run superfast for everybody. Your website should be SNAPPY -- especially on mobile devices. Tuning and optimizing your website is needed on many levels for great performance.
Foundation for excellent website performance
- Server hardware and software configurations.
- Optimizations at the web server (Apache) level.
- Optimize the database (MYSQL) level.
- Optimize at the CMS (Drupal core and modules) level.
- Leverage browser caching.
- Proper aggregation and compression of scripts and files.
- Caching layer technologies such as APC (Advanced PHP Caching) and Varnish.
- Getting all of the above to work together.
Advanced Website Optimization
- 100% HTML5 Validation.
- Set up CDN (Content Delivery Network).
- Structured content such as RDFa, schmema.org, micro formats, Twitter Cards, Open Graph, etc.
- Accessibility compliant (especially for government related websites).
Selected List of Website Testers and Validators
Website Speed Test by Dotcom-Monitor | Instant test from 25 worldwide locations. |
WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test | Run a free website speed test from around the globe using real browsers at consumer connection speeds with detailed optimization recommendations. |
Varnish Cache | Drupal.org | Varnish Cache is a modern reverse proxy cache software package. It has been built from the ground up to be a dedicated reverse proxy cache ... |
Is Varnish working? | Is Varnish Working? http://. isvarnishworking.com brought to you by: Cadre Web Hosting - Simply Solid Web Hosting. |
GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization | Everybody deserves a fast web experience. GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. |
PageSpeed Insights | Web Performance. Learn more about web performance tools at Google, including browser extensions and APIs for Insights, PageSpeed Service, and our ... |
Pingdom Website Speedtest | |
Explaining Varnish for Beginners | Acquia | Outlining Varnish for Drupal. A beginners guide to definitions, configurations, tips and more. |
Website speed test | Use this free Website Speed Test to analyze the load speed of your websites, and learn how to make them faster. |
Log File Analysis for SEO – Working with data visually | |
RDFa Validator | This is validator is meant to validate RDFa content in an HTML or an XML file. |
W3C Markup Validation Service - HTML5 | This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. |