```json
{
    "title": "Web Performance: GrabPERF Performance Measurement System Needs YOU!",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2008/09/13/web-performance-grabperf-performance-measurement-system-needs-you/",
    "datePublished": "2008-09-13",
    "dateModified": "2008-09-13",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "In 2004-2005, as a lark, I created my own Web performance measurement system, using PERL, PHP and MySQL. In August 2005, I managed to figure out how to include remote…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Web Performance: GrabPERF Performance Measurement System Needs YOU!

In 2004-2005, as a lark, I created my own Web performance measurement system, using PERL, PHP and MySQL. In August 2005, I managed to figure out [how to include remote agents](http://newestindustry.org/2005/08/07/grabperf-measurement-location-2-is-now-online/).
I dubbed it...[GrabPERF](http://grabperf.org/). An odd name, but an amalgamation of "Grab" and "Performance" that made sense to my mind at the time. I also never though that it would go beyond my house, a couple of basement servers, and a cable modem.
In the intervening three years, I have managed to:

 scale the system to handle over 250 individual measurements
 involve nine remote measurement locations
 move the system to the [Technorati](http://www.technorati.com/) datacenter
 provide key operational measurement data to system visitors

Although the system lives in the Technorati datacenter and is owned by them, I provide the majority of the day-to-day maintenance on a volunteer basis, if only to try and keep my limited coding skills up.
But this post is not about me. It's about GrabPERF.
Thanks to the help of a number of volunteers, I have measurement locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC, Boston, Portugal, Germany and Argentina.
While this is a good spread, I am still looking to gather volunteers who can host a GrabPERF measurement location. The areas where GrabPERF has the most need are:

 Asia-Pacific
 South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
 UK and Continental Europe
 Central Europe, including the ancestral homeland of [Polska](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland)

It would also be great to get a funky logo for the system, so if you are a graphic designer and want to create a cool GrabPERF logo, [let me know](http://grabperf.org/contact.php).
The current measurement system requires Linux, [cURL](http://curl.haxx.se/) and a few add-on Perl modules. I am sure that I could work on other operating systems, I just haven't had the opportunity to experiment.
If you or your organization can help, please contact me using [the GrabPERF contact form](http://grabperf.org/contact.php).