Improving performance is impossible without good measurements, especially on a complex platform like the Web. In this presentation from 2008 Velocity Conference, Eric Goldsmith of AOL demonstrates their browser plug-in AOL Pagetest, which gathers and displays data about web requests and page loading. Its an open source project for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that combines the strengths of several other monitoring tools.

Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn