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…

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…

Last week I gave a talk at joint NYC- and NY Web Performance Group event at Sun Microsystems offices! It was very nice to see so many people interested in Google’s new performance initiative, I think many were excited and couldn’t wait to try speeding up their sites. I posted my presentation to TechPresentations here:…