With the recent work we did for the dynaTrace AJAX Edition we spent a lot of time in researching on existing blogs and articles on the topics of Web Site Performance, JavaScript and AJAX Frameworks. Here is a collection of interesting links on these topics:

Web Site Performance

• Yahoo! Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
• Google Web Performance Best Practices
• IE8 Performance
• Blogs from Steve Souders, John Resig

Tools

• FireBug: FireFox plugin for editing, debugging and monitoring CSS, HTML and JavaScript
• YSlow: FireFox plugin integrated with FireBug. Allows analyzing web page speed based on the rules of the Yahoo Best Practice Paper
• dynaTrace AJAX Edition: Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues for IE 6, 7 & 8
• Google Page Speed: Open Source FireFox plugin to evaluate Web Site Performance 
• Cuzillion: Allows you to dynamically create a web site with different embedded objects and test its page load time in your browser
• CSS Sprite Generator
• http://spriteme.org/: 
  • It generates sprites right in the web page, so you can play with sprites without having to upload or download anything

   

JavaScript and Ajax Frameworks

• jQuery: simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interactions for rapid web development
  • jQuery Performance Rules
• ExtJS: cross-browser JavaScript library for buliding rich internet applications
• Google Web Toolkit:
• YUI Library: set of utilities and controls, written with JavaScript and CSS for building richly interactive web applications
• Cappuccino: open source framework for building desktop caliber applications that run in the browser
• script.aculo.us: A collection of Web 2.0 style JavaScript libraries that help web developers to easily add visual and ajax effects to projects
• Prototype: JS Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications
• Dojo Toolkit: JavaScript Toolkit for RIAs
• qooxdoo: JavaScript Toolkit for RIAs
• 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries blog post
• JavaScript Best Practices

Community Sites

• Ajaxian: Dion and Ben’s Ajax Platform
• Ajax on dzone.com: fresh links for developers on topics like Ajax, web 2.0, frameworks, …

Lets consider this blog entry as “Work in Progress” – so – please provide some feedback and we will update this post with useful links that come from you.

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