Automated WebPageTest using "snowboard"

I have pushed my project code "snowboard" to my github and check it out if you want to see if it is helpful or not for your daily Synthetic Front-End Performance Test:
https://github.com/joychester/snowboard

Thanks to Webpagetest, from now on, you can request your own API key from : http://www.webpagetest.org/getkey.php

you can freely write your own dashboard or store the whole thing to MongoDB or PostgreSQL etc,  for page trending and further analysis, or you can define your own page perception time by filmstrip which is an existing stage to redefine the page load time for so dynamic web pages.

HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1 Performance with KeepAlive enabled

The recent misconfiguration to the ssl.conf of apache gives me the chance to test the HTTP1.1 and HTTP1.0 performance difference with KeepAlive ON, actually it stays there for years...

Pic1: Shows the HTTP1.1 with Keepalive ON performance overtime, stable and fast:













Pic2: Shows the HTTP1.0 with Keepalive ON performance overtime, up and down:

Current settings in ssl.conf, which makes all IE user agent use HTTP 1.0 as a response protocol:

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \

         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \

         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

To fix the issue, just bypass IE1-6 which may have issues instead of applying to all IE user-agent (it is said to be fixed by latest apache version already):

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE [1-6].*" \

         nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \

         downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

PS： Also tested when turn Keepalive to Off , the response time between HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1 is similar, but 3-4 times slower than keepalive settings for sure due to handshake..