A fast loading website with good images and scripts performance is the first step to a successful online presence, but in real we use many tools , plugins, widgets in our website and those tools simply cause our website to load slow. The search engine panelizes the websites and we don’t get higher rankings in the search results due to the long response time.

Here is a list of free and open source tools and plugins that can help us to test performance and speed of our websites. With their suggestions, we can improve site’s response time.

 Website speed check

The website speed tester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

BrowserMob – Free Website Performance Test Tool

Test your website performance with this free cutting edge tool. This tool accesses your website from different location and generates a website performance analysis report.

PageTest

Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.

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Fridgelist is web based online simple To-Do List Manager built on HTML5 and localStorage. It’s fast, effective for compiling your tasks and accessible using keyboard shortcuts.

You need a modern browsers to use this online To-Do list Manager as all information gets stored inside the browser and not on the server.

Fridgelist using jQuery JSON and Modernizr for limited HTML5 & CSS3 backwards comparability.

At the end, a nice small tool to help keep track of your tasks with ease. Add tasks with single click and double click the task to edit.

Adminer, a full featured MySQL database management tool that consist of a single file to manage database.

Users can manage existing databases and have liberty to create new ones easily. It provides all features required for database management including:

• List fields, indexes, foreign keys and triggers of table
• Execute any SQL command from a text field or a file
• Stored procedures and functions management
• Export table structure, routines & databases to SQL or CSV file
• Manage events and table partitions

Adminer is an open source and multilingual software available in 11 languages.

ColorExplorer is an advanced color picker tool for professional designers and color enthusiasts to play with colors and design their own color palettes with a single click.

Users can export color palettes to popular image editing programs like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

This advanced color picker tool has been carefully crafted in a clean user interface design to help designers easily navigate through the provided options.

ColorExplorer features:

• Matching colors with a single click
• Browse popular color libraries
• Centrally stored palettes for easy access
• Import color from images & HTML / CSS / Text files

Modernizr is a small, simple yet useful JavaScript library allowing you to use CSS3 & HTML5 features while maintaining control over unsupported browsers.

Modernizr uses feature detection to test the current browser against upcoming features like rgba(), localStorage, applicationCache, CSS Transitions, border-radius and many more.

Some of the features that Modernizr 1.1 detects are:

• Geolocation API
• sessionStorage
• Web Workers
• CSS Gradients
• Multiple backgrounds

With Modernizr, you can use CSS3 & HTML5 features with an easy way to control the fall-backs for non-supported browsers.

Website: http://www.modernizr.com/

A web based rich text editor written using jQuery and CSS3 that supports embedded fonts using the @font-face rule in all modern browsers.

The developers have planned to expand the functionality of this rich text editor to support more new CSS3 features such as text-shadow & opacity, etc…

This open source jQuery rich text editor works fine in Internet Explorer 7/8, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Website: https://launchpad.net/css3-jrte

Demo: http://www.rickvause.com/css3-jrte/

Download: http://www.rickvause.com/css3-jrte/css3-jrte.tar.gz

Fedena is the open source school management system based on Ruby on Rails. Fedena is the ideal solution for schools and campuses that want an easy means to manage all campus records.

With Fedena, you can manage student databases & it helps to deal with all school management related issues.

Few features of this open source school erp are:

• Friendly user interface
• Manage student admissions & academic year
• Examination management
• Timetable & Attendance management

Website: http://projectfedena.org/

Demo: http://demo.projectfedena.org (user: admin / pass: admin123)

Elastic is a free WYSIWYG theme editor for WordPress and a new approach to WordPress themes. The purpose of this visual theme editor is to provide user-friendly theme editing environment where users can create their own themes with few simple clicks.

There are three main working parts behind Elastic: a visual (WYSIWYG) theme editor, a theme engine, and a set of protocols that link the two.

Features

• Drag-and-drop environment makes themes easy to customize
• Preview your selections with the detailed typography editor
• Grid-based for easy organization & Custom grids for flexibility

Elastic creates a standard WordPress theme, it makes easy to share your themes with others.

phpBugTracker is an open source web based bug tracking application built with PHP. The design of this free web application focuses on separating the presentation, application, and database layers.

phpBugTracker is lightweight and easy to install, operate and administer. With HTML templates & CSS, users can completely change the look of the interface and can create their own color schemes.

Some features

• Track bugs by multiple users on multiple projects
• Restrict projects to certain groups of users
• Flexible bug search capabilities
• File attachments for bugs
• Web-based installation
• Links to a cvs web interface from bug comments

Visit phpBugTracker site for more information

Our standard & traditional volume controls in mp3 audio players, video players, operating systems & mobile phones adjust volume from ‘quiet’ to ‘loud’ but David has introduced a new kind of volume control that adjusts audio from ‘whisper’ to ‘shout’.

David has used the new HTML5 audio element to make his idea a working demo.

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