A few people on the list asked me how to automate Show Slow monitoring and dug up all the magic I used on my monitoring farm and try to summarize it here: Here are a few steps you’d want to follow: Set up separate browser profiles – one for Google Page Speed and one for…

I decided to extend Google Page Speed support in Show Slow to keep track of metrics the same way it’s done for YSlow. You can see results at showslow.com – here’s example with Page Speed results only: http://www.showslow.com/details/?url=http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ And here’s the example for both Page Speed and YSlow together: http://www.showslow.com/details/?url=http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ Version 0.3 is released and…

I’m working on HowDoable for a few months already and it’s been a fun ride and main challenge is to go towards the goal. I’m using Pivotal tracker for my agile needs and i have a long backlog which I’m adding to more stuff over time, rearranging the list and so on. What I noticed…

Steve Souders wrote a post about people mispronouncing his name. Obviously, I’m an emigrant which makes it different, but in my case people usually can’t finish pronouncing my last name and stumble somewhere in the middle ;) I even thought about borrowing a nickname from Ernesto Guevara, so it’s easier to remember like Sergey “Che”…

Google PageSpeed 1.2 is now able to send data to a beacon (see bug #58) so I added some minimal support for it into ShowSlow that you can get from the trunk. Support is minimal and I only display PageSpeed’s overall rank and page load time (which looks like only initial request load) and it…

In early July, Mozilla team released a new project similar to ShowSlow in it’s concept, it’s called Cesium – their goal is to help people monitor what’s going on with their performance. Ryan Doherty who’s running the project and I agreed to join forces to the degree possible and started to work with YSlow on…

I’m done with my copy of Even Faster Web Sites. It’s definitely a book worth reading if you’re well into web performance optimization and want to step even further when all simpler optimizations don’t bring any more improvements. JavaScript sections from Ajaxians and Nicholas Zakas are quite interesting but definitely for most complex 2.0 apps…

OK, next step in ShowSlow was to make measured data to be a little bit more useful for analysis – previous change of adding rule grades was useful, but simply replicates YSlows functionality and you should be using YSlow itself to get this data. This time I’ve added something that almost no analytics systems have…

Meeting last night was a good start! Thanks to everyone who attended, I hope you enjoyed it. I think it was important to see that front-end performance is a very important topic among the community, but still there are some topics of traditional back-end performance/load-testing/scalability/reliability that a worth have some events dedicated to; maybe we’ll…

Just a few days ago I wrote first version of ShowSlow and then released it Open Source. But progress is unstoppable and Yahoo! released long-awaited YSlow 2.0 so it’s time for ShowSlow 0.2. This means that I’m sitting down and analyzing Beacon parameters to make sure ShowSlow can collect data properly – so here’s the…