The last 6 weeks have been a very exciting time for us at Zoompf. 5 weeks ago we passed the 300 check mark for issues we test your website for using our performance scanning technology. Next we went live with a brand new web design and content management system to manage all our online content and make it easier for you to find the latest front-end performance techniques on our site and on our blog.
Less than 1 month ago, we rolled out our free 100% fully automated web performance scanner. This free service would scan whatever website you want, whenever you want, and as often as you want, and email you a web performance optimization report offering clear guidance to make you website blazingly fast. Since then over 400 submitted their email and received a free scan. Then we introduced of our web performance scanning bookmarklet which allowed anyone to check whatever site they were browsing for web performance problems regardless of what web browser or operating system they were using. This milestone made it even easier to use Zoompf’s performance scanning technology and discover how Zoompf can help web developers, designers and IT professionals build faster sites!
Shortcomings Abound
Of course to get a free performance assessment you still had to type in an email address. This was a barrier for some people. Creating the report and delivering it also wasn’t pretty. It could take up to several minutes before you would receive you report. And when you did receive the performance report is was a ZIP file containing some HTML and supporting images. Very cumbersome indeed! All of these factors made it difficult for web developers, designers, and front-end engineers to seamlessly integrate Zoompf’s performance analysis into their everyday workflow or tool chain.
Well our goal is to provide free tools, software, and services to help make the web a faster place. And that won’t happen unless it is completely painless to use Zoompf during your daily grind. So we all emptied our wallets, rolled some loose coins, and sold our bodies on the 14th hole of Augusta National’s golf course to purchase a crazy fast computer to replace our aging scanning box. Now Zoompf performance scans take seconds instead of minutes. Next, we slaved through the nights, hacking code to remove the entire email dependency from our scanning system and wrote an online reporting system.Like Awesome in a can!
That’s right, today we are happy to announce our free performance scanning service is now entirely online! No email address, nothing to install, just sweet web-based performance checking honey. Punch in any URL you want scanned into the system, mash on “go” and in seconds you will be seeing a Zoompf performance report right inside your browser! Doc even made it work on iPhones or IE6 
It looks something like this:
(O’Reilly’s woodcut animal‘s eyes are so wide because he’s surprised by the wide range of web performance problems on oreilly.com!)
Now for the cool news. Not sure if you noticed but we actually flipped the switch turned activated the online service very late Friday night/very early Saturday morning (approximately 1:45am EST on April 10th). We are very pleased to say that in the last 55 hours or so, people from around the global have used Zoompf to test the performance of over 800 websites!
Want to try it out? Simply go to zoompf.com/free, type in a URL, and bask in awesomeness of free, comprehensive web performance optimization reports! Help us try and get over 1000 scans in the first 72 hours!
Recap
- We just launch 100% free, 100% online web performance scanning service
- We check your app for over 300 different performance and website issues
- o strings! No email required. Unlimited use. No silly technical prejudices. Any browser. Any OS. Period.
On behalf of the entire Zoompf team, myself, Doc, JR, Tracy, and Brian, we thank you for the bottom of our hearts for your interest, feedback and support. It’s going to be an amazing year as we continue to make Zoompf the source to help your find and fix web performance optimization problems.
Enjoy,
Billy Hoffamn. Zoompf Founder
