Yahoo's ySlow & Google's Page Speed online private data capture portal

(pdf download) 2010-05-23 02:16:06

I know a few of you have heard of and are using Yahoo's ySlow and/or Google's Page Speed tools which are Firefox plugins. These are good tools to improve the speed/performance of your website. The results are presented at the bottom of Firefox. What about if you want to save this data for historic reasons etc? Well there is showslow; showslow is an open source portal that one can download and install/setup to allow you to capture your results privately. However, most people do not have a spare server (or virtual host) nor do they wish to compile php to the version required for showslow (especially if using CentOs, but thats a different story).

So I put together a simple online portal that allows a user to register (with the minimum info required - eg. email & password). Once registered you will be presented with a beacon url that you can put in your ySlow/Page Speed configuration and this will beacon your results to your private account in Page Show (pageshow.jaoudestudios.com), where your page can also be validated against W3C - it is still early days, many more reports/functionality etc to follow. However, I would like to get some feedback before I move forward.

Register: http://pageshow.jaoudestudios.com/auth/registration