New weekly emails
I've redesigned the weekly email reports to provide more trending information so you can compare week on week performance improvements. They're nice simple visualizations for forwarding around your whole team.
Share dashboards, basic auth and export HAR's
New features:
- Share your dashboard via a private url. Find the link on the "account" page.
- During site setup you can now add a user/pass for developments sites using basic authentication.
- On the individual test pages below the waterfall are links to the underlying WebPagetest waterfall and ability to export a HAR file.
SpeedCurve dashboard walkthrough
See how powerful the SpeedCurve dashboard is for digging into your website's front-end performance.
Live!
SpeedCurve is now live! To mark the occasion I took the day off work and Helena & Bruno helped send out the launch emails.
SpeedCurve elevator pitch
I've been having a blast over the last couple of weeks putting an intro video together for SpeedCurve.
Speed Matters talk at Auckland Web Dev Nights
Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world.
Sort browser waterfalls
Sort the items in a browser waterfall by Time, Savings and Slowest. Time is the default showing how assets loaded in the browser. Savings places assets at the top that have the greatest optimization potential and Slowest shows you which are the slowest overall requests.
Annotate your graphs
You can now annotate the main graph on SpeedCurve with notes about deployments or specific performance optimizations you may have put live. Just click on the "Annotate" link at the bottom right of the main graph to start adding them and comparing the before and after performance of your website. A vertical line will be placed on the graph where ever a note has been added.
Easily add WebP, SVG and Retina responsive images to your site
A lot of sites are now using responsive design techniques to create great user experiences across mobile, tablet and desktop. Unfortunately images are often just set to 100% width with the same large image being delivered to all browsers and platforms. Picturefill was an important step in delivering responsive images and David Newton's fork now extends that approach to include WebP and SVG images in the mix you send down the pipe.
How SpeedCurve fits into your web performance toolkit
Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking.
