What tools?

I currently use the validators across at W3C to check the html and css validation but what other tools can i use to check that links are in tact and to check browser compatibility.

What else do you guys check on your sites before going live?

 

anything for checking broken links?

 

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Click them?

Never owned a site more than a handful of pages all done at once.

 

How about tools for checking load time? Or am I reaching a bit now?

 

Just count...really if its just HTMl it should be minimal. If its less than half a second - not on localhost - well thats good, but most likely you have a fair bit of content and images on there so....I dunno, I'd normally wait (1.5mbps) for 4 seconds at most (I am very impatient).

 

I was looking for a tool that maybe showed expected times for different connections. e.g. 56kbs.

It was for more of a comparison and testing image optimization as well as some testing on coding.

 

You would be very surprised how good Google is - not just for finding results, but calculating them to. The sum is one simple division.

The syntax:

[sizeoffile]/[connectionspeed]

Code (markup):

(Without "[" and "]")

So say you had a fifty kilobyte page, on a 56kbps, you'd type into Google:
50kb/56kps

It will output:
(50 kilobytes) / (56 kbps) = 7.14285714 seconds

Then we want to the same thing, but on a 1.5Mbps connection:
50KB/1.5Mbps

Output:
(50 kilobytes) / (1.5 Mbps) = 0.260416667 seconds.

Abbreviations used:

Kb/Mb/Gb/Tb/Pb = Kilobit/Megabit/Gigabit/Terabit/Petabit (speed - as in Mbps - M/G/T/P must be uppercase)
KB/MB/GB/TB/PB = Kilobyte/Megabyte/Gigabyte/Terabyte/Petabyte (filesize - keep it all uppercase for clarity)
/ = Divide.

Another fun example is:
50PB/6Kbps

Outputs:
(50 petabytes) / (6 Kbps) = 2 322 811.01 years

Google calculator is skilled enough to output the result in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.

Cheers,

BP

 

Thanks, that will prove very useful indeed.

Cheers
Phil