Is there a YSlow-like tool for IE7?

Question

I love YSlow for Firebug/Firefox, but I've hit a situation where I want to profile an HTTPS site, that doesn't physically work outside of IE6/7 (e.g. no IE8, no Firefox, no Chrome)

Fixing the site to work in all browsers is officially Step #1, but to do some analysis and benchmark the existing site (which will help in reporting overall goal achievement) I really need to be able to profile the existing site.

In particular the info I'm looking for is:

1. Overall page speed
2. Static content (what images, css, js files) are cached, minimized, gzipped
3. Counts/locations of slow CSS (e.g. usage of CSS Expressions)
4. Cookie info
5. Image sizes
6. Duplicate sripts/css
7. File sizes etc.

Without a specific do-all tool, are there specific tools that will help me solve part(s) of the puzzle.

e.g.

• I have Fiddler2 set up... which will give me HTTP(S) sessions, headers, requests, filesizes, gzipping, etc.
• I have a bookmarklet or two that will tally up duplicate scripts/css
• I have the IE7 developer tools installed so that I can view the HTML and inspect things

Using the above I can extract most of the info and then tally up my own "score"/checklist of things that need attention however it is a fair amount of work. :-(

Does anyone have some better tools for this? Is there a YSlow-like tool for IE7??

Answer 1

Well I am afraid there is none.However you can use HTTP Watch to profile.Just give a look & see if it helps.Good Luck

Answer 2

I am not sure, but Firebug Lite can run on IE .. ?

Answer 3

Have a look at dynaTrace AJAX. Works with IE and should give you most of the info you're wanting.

Answer 4

I just came accross MSFAST, a new addon from MySpace Performance team http://msfast.myspace.com/

It does performance analysis and there is a YSLOW quotation system.

Answer 5

Charles Web Proxy has a yslow like feature built in. It works with IE. It is shareware and costs $50 to purchase.

http://www.charlesproxy.com/

I had similar question and this is the best thing that I found for IE. Hope this helps!