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New York Web Performance Group meets approximately once a month to discuss various topics related to Web Performance, both front-end and back-end.

[edit] RSVP to events

You can see a list of scheduled events and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/

[edit] Join professional network on LinkedIn

• New York Web Performance on LinkedIn

[edit] Presentations

We also keep track of all presentations on TechPresentations: http://www.techpresentations.org/New_York_Web_Performance_Group

[edit] You can contribute!

This site is used to collect useful information, help us maintain it - all you need is just to edit a page. It's easier if you register first, you can use OpenID or just regular old-school username and password.

[edit] Best practices

There are a few lists of Web Performance best practices - let's collect them there:

• Best practices

[edit] Performance tools

[edit] General performance analysis tools

• Yahoo's YSlow
• Google's Page Speed
• AOL's Page Test
• MySpace's Performance Tracker
• Microsoft's VRTA
• Feature comparison of performance analysis tools

[edit] Code profilers

• XDebug

[edit] Image optimizers

• Image compressors
  • Smush.it - Yahoo!'s optimization service by Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan
  • PunyPNG - PNG optimization service
  • OptiPNG
• Sprite generators
  • SpriteMe - sprite editor that works right on the page
  • Spritegen (Project Fondue)
  • http://css.spritegen.com/

[edit] Testing automation tools (TDD)

• Watir

[edit] Testing browser capabilities

• BrowserScope - open source automated browser capability tester based on original Steve Souder' UAProfiler. Lots of statistics.

[edit] Reverse proxies

• Nginx
• Varnish
• Squid
• Apache Traffic Server

[edit] Calendar of Upcoming Events