Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest

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Jul ‘08 10

In this screencast, I walk through how to analyze your site using the reports generated by AOL Pagetest, and explain why and how to go about addressing your pressing performance issues. Come for the tool demo, and stay to learn about the anatomy of an HTTP request, the importance of CDN’s and keep-alives, and a handy Apache module to concatenate CSS and JavaScript. Leave me feedback so I can improve it, and enjoy!

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7 Responses to “Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest”

  1. RobertG exacted... July 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Very informative indeed. Thanks for doing it.

  2. Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest | Web Admin Blog warned... July 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    [...] Artz has put together a simple Webcast tutorial on how to use webpagetest.org to measure and fix up your Web site.  If all this talk about Web [...]

  3. Ernest Mueller pontificated... July 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Very sharp! Thanks for making such a noob-friendly tutorial, I think it’ll help more people understand these issues.

  4. meenakshi touted... July 17th, 2008 at 1:24 am

    thanks for making such a useful tutorial…

  5. Eric announced... July 17th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Hey, I actually kind of understand what your job is now. Hahaha

  6. Stoyan lessoned... July 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    This is very nice, may I ask what software did you use to record this?

  7. ArtzStudio notified... July 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    I used iShowU to record the screen, Quicktime to record my face, and Adobe Premiere to edit all my stupid mistakes.

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