Sometimes query strings can differ for a reason un related to performance and you want to have them ignored as all pages that are identical before the ? mark have the same characteristics. Thanks to rachenj who submitted the bug to Show Slow bug tracker, now we have this feature. Configuring query string pruning is…

I was listening to a long awaited interview with Seth Godin that Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley from Startup Success Podcast just released and Seth said something (11:38 in mp3) that resonated with me immediately: …I use a resistance as a compass. If I’m uncomfortable about doing something, if I hear the voice of the…

O’Reilly Velocity OnLine Conference is scheduled for March 17 and Steve Souders was kind enough to invite me to give a talk titled “Keeping Track of Your Performance Using Show Slow“. Here’s more information about the conference: The next O’Reilly Velocity Online Conference happens March 17. This FREE two hour, interactive online conference will give…

Custom Metric Beacon allows every instance of ShowSlow to configure metrics it wants to record in addition to YSlow and PageSpeed ranking. Once metric beacon is configured, simple GET/POST requests can be sent to the beacon with some numeric value which gets recorded and displayed over time on a graph. You can also click on…