Slides for the presentation about using ShowSlow for tracking and understanding your site’s performance. Most of the talk was a DEMO and not in the slides, unfortunately.

1. New York Web Performance Meetup March 23th, 2010 Sergey Chernyshev, truTV Keeping Track of Your Performance Using Show Slow

2. Why monitoring? Need to see current status Keep developers in check Historical data Debugging: trends and causes Get funding for performance project

3. tools Measuring vs. Ranking Debugging info vs. Metrics Manual vs. Automated YSlow, PageSpeed, NetExport AOL Pagetest (WebPageTest.org), HTTPWatch, MySpace’s Perf Tracker, Microsoft VRTA Omniture, Google Analytics and etc.

4. How it works Computer with Firefox and YSlow, PageSpeed Web site Being tested Test data collected Data sent to beacons ShowSlowinstance

5. With custom metrics Computer with Firefox and YSlow, PageSpeed Web site Being tested Test data collected Data sent to beacons Server collecting custom measurements ShowSlowinstance Data sent to beacons

6. DEMO http://www.showslow.com

7. Feedback /questions /Getting involved http://www.showslow.org – open source project http://www.showslow.com – demo instance ShowSlow Google Group ShowSlow category in my blog My email: sergey.chernyshev@gmail.com Twitter: @showslow & @sergeyche Rate my talk: http://speakerrate.com/talks/2830