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Web Performance Best Practices and Rules](#yslow!-web-performance-best-practices-and-rules)\n- [ ] [Application Performance Monitoring](#application-performance-monitoring)\n- [ ] [Error Tracking](#error-tracking)\n- [ ] [Analytics](#analytics)\n- [ ] [Social Media](#social-media)\n- [ ] [Status Page](#status-page)\n- [ ] [Image Optimisation](#image-optimisation)\n- [ ] [Feedback Form](#feedback-form)\n\n## Resources\n\n### Cross Browser Testing\n\n* [BrowserSwarm](http://www.browserswarm.com/)\n* [Sauce Labs](https://saucelabs.com/)\n\n### API\n\n#### Documentation\n\n* [API Blueprint](http://apiblueprint.org/) - _API Documentation with powerful tooling._\n* [API Blueprint Language Specification](https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/blob/master/API%20Blueprint%20Specification.md)\n* [iglo](https://github.com/subosito/iglo) - _API Blueprint's formatter._\n* [Apiary](http://apiary.io/) - _Build beautiful APIs with collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing._\n\n### Domain Name\n\n* [Namecheap](http://www.namecheap.com/)\n* [Gandi](https://www.gandi.net/)\n\n### Hosting\n\n#### Virtual Private Server (VPS)\n\n* [Linode](https://www.linode.com/)\n\n#### Dedicated Server\n\n* [OVH](https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/)\n* [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com/)\n* [Hetzner](http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/)\n\n#### Cloud\n\n* [Amazon EC2](http://aws.amazon.com/)\n* [Rackspace Cloud](http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud)\n\n### Automated Deployment\n\n### Backups\n\nDatabase replication and frequent, off-site backups.\n\n* [Amazon S3](http://aws.amazon.com/s3/)\n\n### Redundancy and Failover\n\nServer redundancy and fail-over, load balancing. Multiple, redundant hosting providers to handle datacenter outages.\n\n### Alert and Monitoring\n\n* [PagerDuty](http://www.pagerduty.com/) - _Provides SaaS IT on-call \nschedule management, alerting and incident tracking._\n\n### Transport Layer Security\n\nKeep your customer's data safe by using an encrypted connection with an SSL certificate. Mandatory for registration and login pages.\n\n### Content Delivery Network\n\nOptimise delivery of web pages, block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers.\n\n* [CloudFlare](https://www.cloudflare.com)\n\n### YSlow! Web Performance Best Practices and Rules\n\nYahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of [best practices for making web pages fast](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html).\n\n1. [Minimize HTTP Requests](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http)\n2. [Use a Content Delivery Network](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn)\n3. [Avoid empty src or href](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#emptysrc)\n4. [Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires)\n5. [Gzip Components](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip)\n6. [Put StyleSheets at the Top](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_top)\n7. [Put Scripts at the Bottom](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom)\n8. [Avoid CSS Expressions](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#css_expressions)\n9. [Make JavaScript and CSS External](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#external)\n10. [Reduce DNS Lookups](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#dns_lookups)\n11. [Minify JavaScript and CSS](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#minify)\n12. [Avoid Redirects](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#redirects)\n13. [Remove Duplicate Scripts](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_dupes)\n14. [Configure ETags](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags)\n15. [Make AJAX Cacheable](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cacheajax)\n16. [Use GET for AJAX Requests](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#ajax_get)\n17. [Reduce the Number of DOM Elements](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#min_dom)\n18. [No 404s](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no404)\n19. [Reduce Cookie Size](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_size)\n20. [Use Cookie-Free Domains for Components](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_free)\n21. [Avoid Filters](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no_filters)\n22. [Do Not Scale Images in HTML](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no_scale)\n23. [Make favicon.ico Small and Cacheable](http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#favicon)\n\n### Application Performance Monitoring\n\nMonitor application performance and track historical trends. \nShould include page load times, error rates, slow transactions, servers resource usage. Correlate performance metrics with deployments/releases. Alerting for severe performance degradation.\n\n* [NewRelic](http://newrelic.com/) - _A powerfully simple way to monitor your Web \u0026 Mobile applications._\n\n### Error Tracking\n\nAggregate client and server errors, exceptions and failures. Should include stack traces, environment information, intelligent notifications, trend analysis. \n\n* [Sentry](https://getsentry.com/welcome/) - _Know immediately when things happen in your application. Engage users before they have a chance to report a problem._\n* [Airbrake](http://airbrake.io/) - _With deploy tracking, logging, dupe detection and a dashboard to track your exceptions, managing and triaging errors has never been easier._\n* [RayGun](http://raygun.io/) - _Real time error reporting you can set up in under 5 minutes!_\n* [Exceptional](http://www.exceptional.io/) - _Tracks errors in web apps. It reports them in real-time and gathers the info you need to fix them fast._\n* [Errbit](http://errbit.github.io/errbit/) - _The open source, self-hosted error catcher._\n* [Google Stackdriver Error Reporting](https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/) - _Real-time exception monitoring and alerting. No limits._ \n\n#### Analytics\n\n* [Google Analytics](https://www.google.co.uk/analytics/)\n* [Go Squared](https://www.gosquared.com)\n\n#### Client-side error tracking\n\n* [Errorception](http://errorception.com/) - _Simple and painless way to find out about JavaScript errors, as they occur in your users' browsers. 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