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 […]
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Update: November 2021 This article is out of date; there are no longer WebPageTest Server AMIs, so you need to install WPT on a base OS.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 […]
Update: November 2021 This article is out of date; there are no longer WebPageTest Server AMIs, so you need to install WPT on a base OS. The updated article is here WebPageTest Private Instance: 2021 Edition If you have any interest in website performance optimisation, then you have undoubtedly heard of WebPageTest. Being able to […]
In a recent article I introduced Microsoft Cognitive Services’ Speaker Verification service, using a recording of a person repeating one of a set of key phrases to verify that user by their voiceprint. The second main feature of the Speaker Recognition API is Speaker Identification, which can compare a piece of audio to a selection […]
Microsoft have been consistently ramping up their AI offerings over the past couple of years under the grouping of “Cognitive Services”. These include some incredible offerings as services for things that would have required a degree in Maths and a deep understanding of Python and R to achieve, such as image recognition, video analysis, speech […]
Hello. I’m a grumpy old web dev. I’m still wasting valuable memory on things like the deprecated img element’s lowsrc attribute (bring it back!), the hacks needed to get a website looking acceptable in both Firefox 2.5 and IE5.5 and IE on Mac, and what “cards” and “decks” meant in WAP terminology. Having this – […]
A constant passion of mine is efficiency: not being wasteful, repeating something until the process has been refined to the most effective, efficient, economical, form of the activity that is realistically achievable. I’m not saying I always get it right, just that it’s frustrating when I see this not being done. Especially so when the […]