diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index 7aba497b74..4b8d1b1d4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -499,6 +499,13 @@ $maxload::
 Set `$maxload` to undefined value (`undef`) to turn this feature off.
 The default value is 300.
 
+$omit_age_column::
+	If true, omit the column with date of the most current commit on the
+	projects list page. It can save a bit of I/O and a fork per repository.
+
+$omit_owner::
+	If true prevents displaying information about repository owner.
+
 $per_request_config::
 	If this is set to code reference, it will be run once for each request.
 	You can	set parts of configuration that change per session this way.
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 048f8a984a..55e0e9ea38 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ our $default_projects_order = "project";
 # (only effective if this variable evaluates to true)
 our $export_ok = "++GITWEB_EXPORT_OK++";
 
+# don't generate age column on the projects list page
+our $omit_age_column = 0;
+
+# don't generate information about owners of repositories
+our $omit_owner=0;
+
 # show repository only if this subroutine returns true
 # when given the path to the project, for example:
 #    sub { return -e "$_[0]/git-daemon-export-ok"; }
@@ -5612,11 +5618,15 @@ sub git_project_list_rows {
 		                        ? esc_html_match_hl_chopped($pr->{'descr_long'},
 		                                                    $pr->{'descr'}, $search_regexp)
 		                        : esc_html($pr->{'descr'})) .
-		      "</td>\n" .
-		      "<td><i>" . chop_and_escape_str($pr->{'owner'}, 15) . "</i></td>\n";
-		print "<td class=\"". age_class($pr->{'age'}) . "\">" .
-		      (defined $pr->{'age_string'} ? $pr->{'age_string'} : "No commits") . "</td>\n" .
-		      "<td class=\"link\">" .
+		      "</td>\n";
+		unless ($omit_owner) {
+		        print "<td><i>" . chop_and_escape_str($pr->{'owner'}, 15) . "</i></td>\n";
+		}
+		unless ($omit_age_column) {
+		        print "<td class=\"". age_class($pr->{'age'}) . "\">" .
+		            (defined $pr->{'age_string'} ? $pr->{'age_string'} : "No commits") . "</td>\n";
+		}
+		print"<td class=\"link\">" .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"summary")}, "summary")   . " | " .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"shortlog")}, "shortlog") . " | " .
 		      $cgi->a({-href => href(project=>$pr->{'path'}, action=>"log")}, "log") . " | " .
@@ -5647,7 +5657,10 @@ sub git_project_list_body {
 	                                 'tagfilter'  => $tagfilter)
 		if ($tagfilter || $search_regexp);
 	# fill the rest
-	@projects = fill_project_list_info(\@projects);
+	my @all_fields = ('descr', 'descr_long', 'ctags', 'category');
+	push @all_fields, ('age', 'age_string') unless($omit_age_column);
+	push @all_fields, 'owner' unless($omit_owner);
+	@projects = fill_project_list_info(\@projects, @all_fields);
 
 	$order ||= $default_projects_order;
 	$from = 0 unless defined $from;
@@ -5678,8 +5691,8 @@ sub git_project_list_body {
 		}
 		print_sort_th('project', $order, 'Project');
 		print_sort_th('descr', $order, 'Description');
-		print_sort_th('owner', $order, 'Owner');
-		print_sort_th('age', $order, 'Last Change');
+		print_sort_th('owner', $order, 'Owner') unless $omit_owner;
+		print_sort_th('age', $order, 'Last Change') unless $omit_age_column;
 		print "<th></th>\n" . # for links
 		      "</tr>\n";
 	}
@@ -6432,8 +6445,10 @@ sub git_summary {
 
 	print "<div class=\"title\">&nbsp;</div>\n";
 	print "<table class=\"projects_list\">\n" .
-	      "<tr id=\"metadata_desc\"><td>description</td><td>" . esc_html($descr) . "</td></tr>\n" .
-	      "<tr id=\"metadata_owner\"><td>owner</td><td>" . esc_html($owner) . "</td></tr>\n";
+	      "<tr id=\"metadata_desc\"><td>description</td><td>" . esc_html($descr) . "</td></tr>\n";
+        unless ($omit_owner) {
+	        print  "<tr id=\"metadata_owner\"><td>owner</td><td>" . esc_html($owner) . "</td></tr>\n";
+        }
 	if (defined $cd{'rfc2822'}) {
 		print "<tr id=\"metadata_lchange\"><td>last change</td>" .
 		      "<td>".format_timestamp_html(\%cd)."</td></tr>\n";