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.