AOL Releases a Nice Open Source Tool

Posted on Jan 24, 2008

I don’t often toot the company horn (or comment on it at all in fact – this is definitely a personal site and I like the separation) but the fact that they have open-sourced this tool is one of the coolest things we have done in a while. The tool is PageTest and for those IE users (or just IE testers) starved for a Firebug type plugin, it is well worth a look.

As well as being available to install to your local PC we use it via a web interface to run tests from multiple locations and browser versions without the need to install them all or have multiple machines. In these dark times of layoffs and plunging stock prices it’s nice to see AOL doing some things not focused on the almighty dollar. Long may it continue.

Technorati Tags: AOL, open source, pagetest, Internet Explorer, firebug

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