To quantify the performance of Web sites, there are lots of metrics:
And metrics provide a great deal of insight. But sometimes we get lost in the metrics. Sometimes metrics alone don’t tell the whole story. What we need is a picture.
Better, but not enough. What we really need is a video:
Very cool. Now I want to compare one Web site to another:
Pretty slick, huh?
How much would you pay for a tool that can do this? How does free sound?
Pat Meenan has been very busy adding video capture functionality to WebPagetest, the hosted version AOL Pagetest.
More details on how this works, and the process for creating videos can be found here.
Yeah Pat, this is great!
Really a very useful addition to Webpagetest.
I hope he can think of a way to build this into the browser plugin version, but that’s probably wishful thinking.