In my previous articles I took you through the process of setting up your own private WebPageTest, either via the AWS interface, or via Terraform infrastructure as code). By default, this would create a Private WebPageTest instance that uses the latest code on the release branch of the official WPOFoundation github repo for WebPageTest. This […]
This article assumes you have an understanding of what Terraform is, what WebPageTest is and some AWS basics. Have you ever wanted to have your WebPageTest setup managed as infrastructure as code, so you can keep all those carefully tuned changes and custom settings in source control, ready to confidently and repeatedly destroy and rebuild at […]
This article assumes that you know the basics of AWS, WebPageTest, SSH, and at least one linux text editor. When talking to people about website performance stats, I’ll usually split it into Real User Metrics (RUM) and Automated (Synthetic/Test Lab): RUM is performance data reported from the website you own, reported into the analytics tool […]
The fantastic WebPageTest, free to use and public, has been available to set up your own private instances for many years; I wrote this up a while back, and scripted a Terraform version to make this as easy and automated as possible. For AWS it was just a case of creating an EC2 instance (other […]
In my last article I walked through the steps to get an Android phone connected to a private WebPageTest server as a web page test agent. In this post I’ll list out the actual hardware I used in order to get this all working!
Running detailed website performance tests is often necessary to understand how a website is experienced by an end user in order to identify opportunities for improvements. WebPageTest.org gives us the ability to run these tests from all over the world – the public instance even gives us access to real devices, so we can check […]
In my recent article Eco Worriers: Saving the Planet, One Unoptimized Website at a Time for the fantastic annual Perf Planet advent calendar, I mentioned how I created a Private WebPageTest setup to use my own custom test agents, which were configured to use an extra Lighthouse plugin (The Green Web Foundation’s "greenhouse"). In this […]
Hopefully you’ve already had a chance to play around with the amazing WebPageTest during your website performance testing adventure so far. In case not, I have a few articles you might like to browse, to help you get up to speed using this fantastic, free, open source, website performance testing tool. It has a website […]
WebPageTest is incredible. It allows us to visit a web page, enter a few values and then produce performance results from any destination around the world. Best of all, you can do this in many different possible browser configurations; even on many different real devices. If you’re doing this a lot, then using that simple […]
Update: November 2021 This article is out of date; there are no longer WebPageTest Server AMIs, so you need to install WPT on a base OS. There is an updated article here Automate Your WebPageTest Private Instance With Terraform: 2021 Edition In a previous article I went through the steps needed to create your own […]