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Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]
Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]
Google Chrome: See No Evil, Do No Evil – An Internet Performance Perspective
In: Commentary| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org
1 Sep 2008The intertubes of the Web are abuzz with talk of the new, open-source Google Chrome browser [two articles here and here]. I will not presume to wade into the debate of whether it is necessary, or what strategic business goals Google has set that rely on having its own browser. I will limit my comments [...]
Thoughts on the China Market
In: Commentary
1 Sep 2008At the The China Vortex, Paul Denlinger discusses how there is no unified “China market”, no monolithic, simplistic, single-minded Goliath that the rest of the world is trying to deal with. While I do not have the depth of on the ground experience that Mr. Denlinger has (I have not yet been blessed with the [...]
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Web Performance Concepts Series – Revisited
In: Commentary| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
31 Aug 2008Two years ago I created a series of five blog articles, aimed at both business and technical readers, with the goal of explaining the basic statistical concepts and methods I use when analyzing Web performance data in my role as a Web performance consultant.
Most of these ideas were core to my thinking when I developed [...]
The Dichotomy of the Web: Andy King’s Website Optimization
In: Commentary| Technology| Web Performance| Work
30 Aug 2008The Web is a many-splendored thing, with a very split personality. One side is drive to find ways to make the most money possible, while the other is driven to implement cool technology in an effective and efficient manner (most of the time).
Andy King, in Website Optimization (O’Reilly), tries to address these two competing forces [...]
In praise of found technology and the waste we treat it
In: Commentary| Life| Technology
30 Aug 2008The title is a deliberate misspelling. An event in the last two weeks has got me thinking about EWaste, and the way it is treated in the US, and likely the entire developed world.
About two weeks ago, #1 son told my wife to “STOP THE CAR!” as they were driving down the road near our [...]
Streaming v. Torrent – The true promise of on-demand
In: Commentary| Streaming
29 Aug 2008Steve Gillmor comments on TechCrunch today that Comcast’s caps on bandwidth may finally drive people from the land of torrents, and to the land of streaming. [here]
While I agree that the promise of streaming is long overdue, there is the one area that streaming still can’t fill: The mobile viewer. I don’t mean folks on [...]
Web Performance: Your Teenage Web site
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
10 Sep 2008It’s critical to your business. It affects revenue. It’s how people who can’t come to you perceive you.
It’s your Web site.
Its complex. Abstract. Lots of conflicting ideas and forces are involved. Everyone says they now the best thing for it. Finger-pointing. Door slamming. Screaming.
Am I describing your Web site and the team that supports it? [...]