Do you feel that something on your website is not working as expected? You know something is wrong, but you can’t seem to find where it’s coming from. The answer is Firebug and its equally important partner, Page Speed.
fire bug
This is a free and open source web development tool that allows you to edit, debug and monitor the CSS, DOM. HTML and JavaScript of web pages in real time. As such, it is an effective tool for website performance analysis and web testing security.
Website loading speed is important to both your visitors and search engines. Visitors don’t like to wait for web pages to display, and with the back button at their fingertips, they can simply click to go to another website. Similarly, search engine spiders hate to wait and with millions of pages waiting to be visited, they may consider your website unimportant and overlook your pages.
With too many web applications being buggy or useless, pages take longer to appear on screens. Firebug’s script file chooser sorts files into an ordered list that makes it easy to find files to debug. You can choose to use the debugger whenever you encounter a bug to immediately fix, edit, or delete the files that are causing you problems. It also gives you the option of letting the debugger automatically inform you of conditions that require your attention.
Another important feature of Firebug is its ability to monitor CSS, DOM, HTML, and JavaScript, giving you an effective tool to analyze your website’s performance. By using the profiler, you will be able to view a detailed report showing all the functions that were performed and the amount of time each function was performed. You can then decide which files to work on.
speed page
This is a tool that essentially evaluates the steps involved in page load time to shorten the time for them to complete. It eliminates certain steps or makes them work simultaneously, significantly reducing the load time from when the user clicks a button until an image is displayed on the screen.
Page Speed also identifies issues such as CSS or JavaScript loaded by a page that were not actually used to display the page. For example, CSS files have thousands or tens of thousands of codes and lines that include commas, tabs, spaces, line breaks, and code comments. With the tool, you can compress files by removing unnecessary spaces to produce smaller files. It also provides ready instructions on how you can fix your web pages to load faster.
A faster page load time benefits both human and machine visitors. Human users will love coming back to your website, while search engine spiders will love ranking your pages high. The bottom line is increased traffic, improved conversion rate, and more profit.