Firebug Client Security & Speed Optimization
Summary
While Firebug is seen as a web designers tool for the most part, it's power comes from the wide range of transfer details that it has access to. Firebug is a client side plugin for Firefox, that allows you investigate the rendered code, JavaScript, CSS, and viewing incoming and outgoing requests.
Touted by any client side web designer or web developer as worth it's weight in gold, it's usage for the most part is limited to making modifications to existing markup and styling for cross browser compliance and rapid development.
Integration
The Clearmix PlatformTM makes use of the tools Firebug brings with it, especially it's net panel and YSlow plugin from Yahoo! We use Firebug and other HTTP Capture applications extensively to investigate the kinds of headers that are being sent and returned. We then take this information and try to re-create them maliciously in an attempt to ensure our servers security. This type of testing is very important as it's becoming a very common method for hacking.
Additionally, our use comes in the form of analyzing all the different http delays that go on when a user requests a page within your community. Analyzing whether ETags are being sent, the dates for caching expiry, whether the content is zipped, and whether the external media are optimized properly for client side user experience.
Over 80% of website response time delays occur on the client side, and this tool allows us to investigate and optimize better than any competitors on the market.
Result
The result of our working on optimizing the client side for optimization and security means that your community will log more hits, and be exposed longer within your brand or organization.
Content will only be processed by the server if your community has in fact submitted it authentically. Additionally, every image and video that is sent to their browser will be optimized for faster user experience.
