essential-web-tools

Curated list of useful publically available tools for web hosting and development.

Various

• Google Lighthouse - test performance, quality, and correctness
• Broken links checker
• Test SMTP mail server
• Mailinator - Dummy email addresses for testing signups
• BuiltWith - Wich tech stack is used by a site

Performance testing

• Google Page Speed Insights performance testing
• Google Mobile Website Speed Testing Tool
• Test web site performance from many locations in the world
• YSlow

Security testing

• SSLLabs Test SSL server configuration
• Generate SSL CAA record
• Webbkoll web data-protecting measures analytzer

Email configuration testing and generation

• Mail-Tester Test mail spammyness
• Test SPF policy for server ip
• Test DMARC Record
• Test SPF and DKIM

Monitoring

• StatusCake availability monitoring
• Uptime robot

Server guides

• NGINX Hardening Checklist

Performance improvement

• instant.page improve performance by prefetching pages on hover