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Archive for March, 2009
Why Chrome 2.0 Dev was Deleted
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| Web analytics| analytics
30 Mar 2009I deleted Chrome 2.0 from my system on Friday for one very powerful reason: When it is installed, it makes itself the default browser.
Its performance gains and light weight were impressive. But its invasion of my system was uncalled for.
No matter which browser you set to be the default browser, Chrome 2.0 prevents that browser [...]
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- Tags: Browsers, Chrome, Google Chrome
The Rise of MSIE 8
In: Browsers| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
28 Mar 2009In the 10 days since its public release, MSIE8 has made a run up the charts. Courtesy of the great folks at StatCounter and their public analytics data, this growing browser share for MSIE8 can be easily followed.
In the US, prior to its release, MSIE8 RC1 was in sixth position behind even the old battleship [...]
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- Tags: Firefox, Firefox 2.0, Firefox 3.0, Microsoft Windows, MSIE6, MSIE7, MSIE8, Safari 3.2, Safari 4, United States
Web Performance: The Rise of Browser Computing
27 Mar 2009The next generation of browser all tout that they are able to more effectively deliver on the concept of cloud computing and Web applications. That may be the case, but it changes the entire world of Web performance measurement and monitoring.
The Web performance focus for most firms is simple: How quickly can code/text/images/flash can be [...]
Tonight, I figured out how to add the Resolved IP Addresses for a host to measurement data and store that information for further debugging. It was very simple – I was trying to find complex solutions to this issue.
Turns out the solution is built right into PERL: The Socket module.
My thought is that I will [...]
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- Tags: DNS, hostname, IP-location mapping, IPV4, load balancing, Perl
Legitimate DNS Hijacking and You
In: DNS| Internet| The Web| Web Performance
26 Mar 2009DNS hijacking is an occurrence that sends fear into the hearts of man and beast. It takes a perfectly harmless (yet critical) process and turns it into a weapon for chaos and mayhem.
This tool, however, does not simply reside in the hands of people looking to maliciously redirect traffic for purposes I can’t quite fathom [...]
GrabPERF Agent Update – DNS
In: GrabPERF| The Web| Web Performance| search
24 Mar 2009This afternoon, the two GrabPERF Agents at Technorati were switched back to using their local copies of caching BIND for resolving DNS entries.
Some folks at Microsoft who stopped by to look at their results on the Search Performance Index noticed that there were one or two outliers in the results from these locations. When I [...]
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- Tags: caching, DNS, Eric Schurman, Live Search
Browsers and Affect on Revenue
In: Browsers| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
24 Mar 2009A great follow-up to my post on Browser Stats is this slide deck from Gomez on Online Revenue and Browsers Performance.
Protect Your Online Revenue – Best Practices For Ensuring Your Web Applications Perform Across Browsers
NB: I do work for Gomez.
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StatCounter Browser Stats – March 1-24 2009
In: Browsers| GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Uncategorized| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
24 Mar 2009Using the visitor trending data collected and shared by StatCounter, I have undertaken a general analysis of browser distribution by global region. These metrics are collected using the embedded tags that StatCounter customers embed on their site to collect visitor metrics for their own use.
US data shows that MSIE 7.0 is in a dominant position, [...]
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- Tags: Asia, China, European Union, Firefox, Firefox 3.0, India, Japan, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, MSIE 6.0, MSIE 7.0, MSIE 8.0, Oceania, Opera 9.6, Safari, South America, South Korea, StatCounter, StatCounter GlobalStats, United States, web application, web applications, web compliance reasons, Web designers nightmare, Web development, Windows 2000
Search Referrer Stats – March 21 2009
In: Web analytics| analytics| search
22 Mar 2009Via Statcounter, here is my search engine distribution for a log of 2,000 hits.
With statistics like these, is there really any point in having other search engines?
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GrabPERF Search Index – March 13-19 2009
In: Internet| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics| performance index| search
20 Mar 2009About four years ago, I published/posted a number of indices related to GrabPERF data. This is a re-launch of that, starting with the GrabPERF Search Performance Index.
The methodology of the Search Performance Index is straightforward: A number of key search providers are selected and HTTP GET requests are sent that directly pull the results page [...]