My Website Tools

By David Walsh on February 7, 2008

For those of you who eat up my RSS feed (thank you), you may not know that I have some pretty helpful tools on my website.

Alexa Rank Fetcher

Your Alexa rank can come into play when you try to sell advertising on your website.

Don't make your website visitors download your bloated CSS file! Use my CSS compressor to clear extra whitespace!

Need to know if that domain is available? Use my domain checker. I wont auto-reserve it like Network Solutions -- I promise!

Need to know how many pages your customer has indexed in Google since you gave them a great SEO run? Find out!

I use this all the time. If your client needs a directory protected, you're gonna need to generate the password somewhere.

Javascript files can get bloated in a hurry -- save some bandwidth!

Have some text you know doesn't need to be updated again? Pack it for good!

By David WalshNovember 21, 2011
Page Visibility API
One event that's always been lacking within the document is a signal for when the user is looking at a given tab, or another tab. When does the user switch off our site to look at something else? When do they come back?
By David WalshAugust 15, 2011
Send Text Messages with PHP
Kids these days, I tell ya. All they care about is the technology. The video games. The bottled water. Oh, and the texting, always the texting. Back in my day, all we had was...OK, I had all of these things too. But I still don't get...

By David WalshJanuary 30, 2012
Image Data URIs with PHP
If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves...
By David WalshOctober 27, 2009
Event Delegation with MooTools
Events play a huge role in JavaScript. I can't name one website I've created in the past two years that hasn't used JavaScript event handling on some level. Ask yourself: how often do I inject elements into the DOM and not add an...

Jade Robbins
The link to the css compressor gives me a “not found” :(
david
@Jade: All of these tools have been moved to:

http://davidwalsh.name/web-development-tools