Category Archives: ShowSlow

ShowSlow 0.15: Now using only DBUpgrade

Managing database was a bit confusing before and you had to both load tables.sql and then run make to initialize DB schema. Now, I moved all database setup into dbupgrade.php so starting with ShowSlow 0.15 new users can just run make … Continue reading

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ShowSlow 0.11: Added YSlow 2.1.0 “Avoid Empty Image src” rule

YSlow team released new version – 2.1.0 and among other things, they added a new rule Nikolas Zakas came up with for checking if there are any images/scripts/other external files that have empty URL. This means that new release of ShowSlow … Continue reading

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ShowSlow 0.10.2 – minor install packages fixed

ShowSlow 0.10 had some minor issues with install packages – fixed now in v0.10.2. If you had troubles installing 0.10, go ahead and download the latest package: showslow_0.10.2.zip (zip, 862K) showslow_0.10.2.tgz (tarball, 730K) Installation instructions can be found in the … Continue reading

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ShowSlow 0.10 More metrics and a bit prettier details page

New ShowSlow version 0.10 – all measurements are now surfaced in the breakdown sections on details page. A few particularly interesting ones, like Page Speed’s Transfer Size and Page Size and dynaTrace’s Total time on network / JavaScript and rendering, … Continue reading

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ShowSlow 0.9 with support for PageSpeed 1.9 beacons

Upcoming PageSpeed 1.9 has a few new rules implemented and ShowSlow needs to keep up. Welcome ShowSlow 0.9 with updated beacon. New rules displayed include: Avoid CSS @import Avoid document.write Combine images using CSS sprites Prefer asynchronous resources Just follow … Continue reading

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