I’ve been dreaming about this for a while now and then Aaron and I were working on different parts of the system which allowed that to happen and now it’s possible! Please welcome automated YSlow and Page Speed monitoring using Show Slow! Now all you need to do is to register an account and enter…

First, a short intro – I’ve been thinking of what to do with all the ideas I’m coming up and I’d like to try posting blog entries under “Concepts” category. I’ll accept comments and will write additions to the concept there as well. We’ll see what it’ll be like ;) On my way home today,…

After using drop-in .htaccess file in a few of my projects I realized that people have problems with it because their Apache doesn’t have the modules enabled. Then I realized that apache doesn’t have any of those three modules (mod_deflate, mod_rewrite and mod_expires) enabled by default. It means I found a first project that needs…

Release 0.6 is packed with new stuff – first of all, smoothing that was originally implemented in JavaScript was too slow and got moved to server side in PHP code so now results are still smooth, but not clogging down the browser. Front-end performance is always a priority for ShowSlow project and all performance-related bugs…

It’s very important to speed up your web sites so you don’t loose the users. That being said, many tasks in the checklists from Yahoo or Google are quite complex and are hard to grasp for people who didn’t work all their life configuring Apache or digging deep into the depths of HTTP. To help…