Comments on: Speed testing your web site with AOL Pagetest

By: Driverjam

Driverjam — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:20:30 +0000

Thanks Zuborg! That site helped me out a lot.

By: zuborg

zuborg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:09:04 +0000

I would also recommend this online free tool: http://Site-Perf.com/

It measure loading speed of page and it’s requisites (images/js/css) like browsers do and shows nice detailed chart - so you can easily spot bottlenecks.

Also very useful thing is that this tool is able to verify network quality of your server (packet loss level and ping delays).

By: Pat Meenan

Pat Meenan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:19:11 +0000

Sorry, we created it for IE because Firefox already has a boatload of useful tools and the bulk of our visitors are on IE (and trust me, Firefox gets plenty of use by devas the sites are being built). We need to create a Firefox version at some point, it just hasn’t been on the short list to do. If someone wants to create an equivalent plugin for firefox I am willing to run hosted testing on the same equipment and offer different browsers as a test option.

What wasn’t presented but is also part of the source package on sourceforge (http://pagetest.sourceforge.net) is the automation harness that we put around pagetest for doing repetitive testing. The results are in a format suitable for databasing and trending/notifying (that part we haven’t released as it’s really not all that polished and very AOL-specific but if anyone wants to take on building a reporting/alarming interface I’m willing to help out where I can).

There’s a “Send Us Feedback” link at the bottom of the webpagetest.org site that has my e-mail address if you need to reach me.

-Pat

By: Ryan Doherty

Ryan Doherty — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 +0000

It is pretty cool. Too bad it’s for IE only

Why do so many large companies write tools for IE?

We’ll just need to create a Firefox plugin that can gather results from ySlow and report them!