Curl

Test web server caching with curl

Want to test your web server and see if static files are properly cached? Curl can help and with some scripting even automate the task for you.

Summary

Learn how to use curl to test if your web server is properly caching static files

Curl cheat sheet

One of the best HTTP clients is the open source tool curl. With ongoing development and new updates, it is worth getting everything out of this powerful tool!

Summary

Download files and troubleshoot issues faster with curl

How to test if a website supports Brotli or Gzip compression

Optimizing a web server and its content can be done using brotli and gzip compression. This article shows a few ways to test your website.

Summary

After migrating this blog to Hugo we performed some optimization steps to ensure it is as quick as possible. Pages are slim and small in size, but still can be compressed. Normally we would do this on the end of the web server, by enabling dynamic compression. So each time a client requested a compressed page, the web server would compress is and send over the data. This time we turned things around.