Scripting YSlow and/or PageSpeed

Question

As I'm starting to do some front end engineering at work, I would like to properly quantify the speedup achieved.

I would like to be able to use an average value of, say, 50 page load times measured by YSlow or Google Page Speed. Obviously, I don't want to hit reload 50 times and write down the value.

Is there a FF plugin for that or will I have to write a Firebug extension myself? Or maybe there is a non-FF, command-line tool that does what I'm planning?

Answer 1

I recently did a talk about this at Google Test Automation Conference in Zurich for this.

Slides for it are here

And I did a blog post on my company site about it and that can be found here

We were able to use the YSlow Beacon and Seleniumn together to automate the entire process.

I hope that helps!