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Measuring performance of the user experience 13 Jul 2013 | 12:37 am
TL;DR: WebPagetest will now expose any User Timing marks that a page records so you can use the same custom events for your synthetic test measurement as well as your Real User Measurement (and you ca...
Progressive JPEGs FTW! 5 Jun 2013 | 09:57 pm
TL;DR: Progressive JPEGs are one of the easiest improvements you can make to the user experience and the penetration is a shockingly-low 7%. WebPagetest now warns you for any JPEGs that are not progr...
What makes for a good talk at a tech conference? 29 May 2013 | 09:11 pm
I have the pleasure of helping select the talks for a couple of the Velocity conferences this year and after looking at several hundred proposals it is clear that there are widely varying opinions fro...
Motivation and Incentive 28 Dec 2012 | 11:09 pm
My favorite web performance article in 2012 was this one from Kyle Rush about the work done on the Obama campaign's site during the 2012 election cycle. They did do some cool things but it wasn't the...
Clearing IE's Caches - Not as simple as it appears 20 Nov 2012 | 08:26 pm
I've spent the last week or so getting the IE testing in WebPagetest up to snuff for IE 10. I didn't want to launch the testing until everything was complete because there were some issues that impac...
FCC Broadband Progress Report 22 Aug 2012 | 07:44 pm
The FCC released their eighth broadband progress report yesterday. The most interesting part for me is when you get to page 45 and they start talking about actual adoption (in the US), as in the spee...
WebPagetest Mobile Agents 26 Jun 2012 | 04:57 am
Hot off of the Velocity Conference presses, iOS and Android 2.3 agents are now available from the Dulles, VA location on WebPagetest. We have been working with Akamai on their recently open-source mo...
EC2 Performance 31 May 2012 | 11:06 pm
WebPagetest makes EC2 AMI's available for people to use for running private instances and makes fairly extensive use of them for running the testing for the Page Speed Service comparisons. We have te...
Anatomy of a MyBB Forum Hack 4 Apr 2012 | 07:14 am
It has been an exciting 2 days. Yesterday I discovered that over the weekend the forums at webpagetest.org had been hacked and that someone had installed a back door. I traced the source of the entr...
Testing for Frontend SPOF 12 Oct 2011 | 06:30 am
Steve Souders had a great blog post last year that talked about Frontend Single Points Of Failure (SPOF). Given the continuing rise in 3rd-party widgets on pages it is becoming increasingly important...
