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High Performance Web Sites: The Importance of Front-End Performance

CocoaMySQL is an application for Mac OS X used to manage MySQL databases. It lets you add and remove databases and tables, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform qustom queries, dump tables and databases.

The Thumbshots Ranking Tool allows you to perform your own search engine comparisons, and displays the results visually, making it easy to see both the rankings and comparative positions of pages in search engine results.

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:

getPlugin is a jQuery Plugin aimed at improving performance by keeping unnecessary scripts and styles out of the DOM. Check the source of this page to see it in action. Useful if your website or application uses a large number of scripts in files.

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

The people behind mootools have put together a speed/validity test to compare the speed of CSS3 selectors in the most popular javascript libraries. Great job, but too bad to find out that jQuery is at the slower part of the line up...

'sIEve' is a project to get rid of memory leaks due to some limitations of the garbage collector in Internet Explorer.