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Time your website speed with simple command line tools

When doing some initial, rough performance evaluation of a website's code, we can use some common tools which should be available on most desktops. Whether on Mac or Windows, you should have access to a command line (Terminal on Mac, git bash or Cygwin bash on Windows) with the regular "Unix" (POSIX) command line tools or GNU versions of them. You should also have 'curl' (and 'wget'), which is non-standard but very common and useful.

In the following examples, replace example.com with your website and page you want to test.

Step 0: ping example.com

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Quick MySQL cache tuning tips using Mysqltuner and Mysqladmin

MySQL is the default relational database for web today as part of the ubiquitous LAMP stack. Postgres has a reputation for better data integrity (whereas MySQL has a reputation for losing data) where MySQL runs faster at the cost of data robustness. But when you're running a few "heavy" websites, especially running Drupal or other CMS sites, then you'll be depending on your database server to perform a lot of queries quickly.

1. You want to see just how busy your database server is. Use...