A special guest, Andreas Grabner is coming to New York City to present new features of upcoming dynaTrace AJAX Edition 2.0 at NY Web Performance Meetup! dynaTrace AJAX Edition is a free tool that provides full JavaScript, Network, Rendering, DOM and XHR tracing for Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8. With the latest version the Ajax…

This Thursday I gave a talk at NY Web Performance about third-party content and topic proven to be quite hot with many people in the audience, good Q&A and group discussion afterwards. We talked about ad banners, widgets and tracking “pixels” and overall theme was lack of control and heavy reliance on 3rd parties. Ads…

A few changes were made to ShowSlow in a past couple months so it’s time for a new release – welcome ShowSlow 0.7! Full list of changes can be seen in bug tracker, but here are the most important ones: Resolved a problem with missing mod_rewrite (#43) A few people complained that timeplot charts and…

Third party content slows down our site while we don’t have control over it. Ad banners, JavaScript widgets, analytics trackers – they all contribute to site’s slowness and sometimes are biggest offender. On July 22nd, I’m going to give a presentation entitled “Taming third-party content: ads, widgets, trackers” at New York Web Performance Meetup. If…