The document discusses proxy tools and executors for improving website performance. It introduces Browsermob as a proxy tool that can capture HAR files containing page load timings and addresses issues like slow scripts. An executor is then described as a tool for automating tasks by interacting with pages through actions like clicking and waiting without fixing underlying issues. Flexpilot is provided as an example executor that can bootstrap tests and execute them across browsers using HTML5 capabilities until a native solution is available.

1. PROXY &
EXECUTOR
@adamgoucher
http://element34.ca
photo credit: scott beale / laughing squid

2. PROXY

3. PROXY
why?

4. PROXY
slow scripts suck

5. PROXY
issue 141

6. PROXY
404s

7. PROXY
capabilities

8. PROXY
enter browsermob

9. BROWSERMOB
port

10. BROWSERMOB
blacklists

11. BROWSERMOB
har

12. HAR
json

13. HAR
pages

14. HAR
entries

15. HAR
timings

16. HAR
cache

17. EXECUTOR

18. EXECUTOR
this is the hammer

19. EXECUTOR
poke; don’t fix

20. EXECUTOR
sync & async

21. EXECUTOR
widgets

22. EXECUTOR
document

23. EXECUTOR
element

24. EXECUTOR
flexpilot

25. FLEXPILOT
flexpilot

26. FLEXPILOT
bootstrap

27. FLEXPILOT
‘magic’

28. FLEXPILOT
execute

29. FLEXPILOT
win at farming!

30. FLEXPILOT
(until html5)

31. HTML5
canvas

32. HTML5
hard

33. HTML5
media

34. HTML5
easy

35. HTML5
execute

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