Web standards: the tools

My customer, a large automotive company, asked me to make a study on what standards to set for their current website development. They also want to know how their sites compare with the competitors and with the overall current standards followed by websites in general.

This is part one of my journey: gathering the tools.

Current standards

What makes a successful, good, effective website? What sites to compare? What issues to consider? Performance, usability and accessability will certainly be part of the analysis.

Gathering the tools

To help analyzing web pages, I decided to make Firefox my major tool. After looking for extensions that would help me, I've installed these:

Performance meter

I also decided to use JMeter for performance analysis: "Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions."