Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest
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!
Tags: design, development, engineering, operations, pagetest, Performance, tools
RobertG proclaimed... July 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Very informative indeed. Thanks for doing it.
Optimizing Web Performance with AOL Pagetest | Web Admin Blog touted... July 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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Ernest Mueller warned... 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.
meenakshi uttered... July 17th, 2008 at 1:24 am
thanks for making such a useful tutorial…
Eric touted... July 17th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hey, I actually kind of understand what your job is now. Hahaha
Stoyan wrote... July 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
This is very nice, may I ask what software did you use to record this?
ArtzStudio howled... 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.
Guillaume, MacMation barked... May 12th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Hi,
Thank you for this really nice tutorial.
I now have a lot of work to do, but I know why and what benefits I can expect.
Very clear and perfectly delivered presentation. Congrats!
Mike Eastwood - Webalite pontificated... July 3rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Thank you for the thorough explanation Dave.
Nice work
-Mike
Billigt Webhotell reported... November 9th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Great Video!
Clears up a few things, And as Steve Sounders said, Performance is going to be “The” thing in 2010.
arith touted... December 15th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
great!! explanation ,but how to print all the reports from pagetest to my laptop or desktop after we finished the test?
Patrick Meenan said... January 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
@arith – Could you be a bit more specific about printing all the reports to your laptop/desktop? Are you just trying to save the results (are are you talking about tests run from the online tool at http://www.webpagetest.org or from the browser plugin)? Depending on what you are trying to do there are several options.
-Pat
mercime shouted... January 25th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Thank you for taking the time to create this screencast. I enjoyed and have learned a lot from the detailed explanation. Very cool. Encore!