Demystifying web performance automation

From the blog of Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby:

This past Wednesday, I had the great privilege of hanging out with the New York Web Performance Meetup crowd, where I led a session on web performance automation. I wanted to identify what kinds of performance best practices are manually do-able versus which practices lend themselves better to automation. After going over performance-related terminology and concepts — such as waterfall charts, first vs repeat views, and concurrency — we jumped into a hands-on case study: optimizing the Velocity website.

Read the full post, along with the slide deck, at Joshua's blog, Web Performance Today.