Google Page Speed Online API and more in ShowSlow 0.18: http://www.showslow.com/blog/page-speed-online-api/ RB from ShowSlow blog

I’m going to talk at opening Workshop at Velocity. http://www.showslow.com/blog/showslow-at-velocity-2011/ RB from ShowSlow blog.

ShowSlow 0.10 had some minor issues with install packages – fixed now in v0.10.2. If you had troubles installing 0.10, go ahead and download the latest package: showslow_0.10.2.zip (zip, 862K) showslow_0.10.2.tgz (tarball, 730K) Installation instructions can be found in the wiki: http://www.showslow.org/Installation_and_configuration Kudos go to Johan Bleuzen for filing a bug about the install problems.…

Upcoming PageSpeed 1.9 has a few new rules implemented and ShowSlow needs to keep up. Welcome ShowSlow 0.9 with updated beacon. New rules displayed include: Avoid CSS @import Avoid document.write Combine images using CSS sprites Prefer asynchronous resources Just follow upgrade instructions if you already have an instance running. Or you can download code package…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been using WebPageTest a lot lately – having a web-based app always available makes wonders! Testing one page over and over again is quite common when working on optimization for a particular site so I’ve added WebPageTest form to a details page on ShowSlow long time ago. This…

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…

A few people noticed that users submitted all kinds of URLs to Show Slow including those with file:// schema and even chrome:// schema (internal schema for Firefox extension files). Some users also sent URLs with private IPs and from localhost which can not be accessed from the internet by general public. I added some code…

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…

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…

Many people were frustrated with the graphs ShowSlow was showing as rankings and other measurements change too frequently if your pages are dynamic in nature and show different content on every request. ShowSlow v0.5 is using rolling average to smooth the graphs, hope it’s going to be easier on your eyes and will help you…