I’d like to welcome Aaron Kulick to ShowSlow team! Aaron was active user and contributed a few patches and then started to actively contribute documentation to the project wiki: showslow.org. Now Aaron is a full-blown contributor with SVN access and his first contribution is solving the most common problem – how do we automate YSlow…

Useless requests There is a fundamental problem with static assets on the web pages, like images, CSS files and most importantly JavaScript files – they are requested from the server over and over again even if they were not modified between page requests. This slows down page rendering and in case of JavaScripts quite dramatically…

I gave extended presentation about ShowSlow at New York Web Performance Meetup yesterday and I hope I was able to inspire people to start tracking their web site’s performance over time and thinking about your metrics that they want to collect for their business. There were a couple questions about automation so here’s the blog…

Wednesday talk at O’Reilly Velocity Online Conference was great even though it was very short I had lots more to cover. I’m doing extended talk and demo of ShowSlow next Tuesday at New York Web Performance Group. Will be happy to see you there and chat about performance of your site! I’m also excited about summer…

I added a few features to ShowSlow in a past couple weeks, but being also busy with HowDoable, I didn’t have time to write about them so here you go – a short digest: Limit URLs using PCRE regexes You can now limit URLs to be accepted by ShowSlow using PCRE regular expressions (thanks for…

Our friend and ex-New Yorker, Joe Devon started Web Performance Meetup group in the sunny Los Angeles. Can’t wait to see what the group is going to discuss and maybe one day I’ll be able to go and visit them ;) If you’re in the area, come and sign up!

DBUpgrade project got a new site, logo and @dbupgrade twitter account. DBUpgrade.org is a wiki site so please feel free to help me documenting it, providing your own solutions and describing your use cases. This is not much, but quite enough for a small open source project to survive. Go ahead, subscribe to this blog…