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The Complexity of Web Performance
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3 Mar 2010Helping a colleague this week, we uncovered some odd behavior with a site whose performance he was analyzing. Upon first glance, it was clear that this site had a performance issue – they had HTTP persistence disabled. Immediate red flag in the areas of network overhead and geographic latency.
Further digging exposed something more sinister. It [...]
Compression and the Browser – Who Supports What?
In: Browsers| Effective Web Performance| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org
10 Feb 2010The title is a question I ask because I hear so many different views and perspectives about HTTP compression from the people I work with, colleagues and customers alike.
There appears to be no absolute statement about the compression capabilities of all current (or in-use) browsers anywhere on the Web.
My standard line is: If your customers [...]
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- Tags: Cascading Style Sheets, Chrome, computing, Cross-browser, Firefox, HTML, HTTP compression, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 5, internet explorer 6, internet explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Javascript, Markup languages, Opera, Safari, Technology/Internet, web browsers, World Wide Web
Effective Web Performance: The Wrong 80 Percent
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10 Sep 2009Steve Souders is the current king of Web performance gurus. His mantra, which is sound and can be borne out by empirical evidence, is that 80% of performance issues occur between the Web server and the Web browser. He offers a fantastically detailed methodology for approaching these issues.
But fixing the 80% of performance issues that [...]
Effective Web Performance: What to Manage
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28 Aug 2009One of the traditional areas of frustration for Operations and Development teams in the Web world is that their performance, Web performance, is measured from the outside-in.
The resistance of this camp is strong, and they will appear without warning, even from amongst the most enlightened of companies.
How can they be recognized?
You will hear their battle-cry, [...]
Effective Web Performance: Measurement-First or CDN-First?
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25 Aug 2009A hallway conversation this morning brought up a very interesting point about the relationship between Web performance measurements and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). When choosing between a Web performance measurement solution and a CDN, which service should come first?
Companies facing dire and obvious Web performance issues will want immediate results, leading them to fall into [...]
Effective Web Performance: Third-Party Providers (Or Why Herding Cats is Fun)
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18 Aug 2009It’s a rare Web site these days that hosts all of its own content. From the smallest blog to the largest retailer, Web sites farm out their images, streams, and pages to CDNs, and absorb feeds, ads, and data streams from any number of outside providers.
Effective Web performance demands that a site take responsibility for [...]
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- Tags: ajax, content delivery network, Effective Web Performance, herding cats, JavaScript programming language, Management, Networks, Outsourcing, performance measurement, Service Level Agreement, Service level objectives, stress, Technology/Internet, web browsers, Web Performance, Website
Effective Web Performance: The Culture of Performance
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17 Aug 2009A quote from Avinash Kaushik (Occam’s Razor and @avinashkaushik) to start this post.
I have a 10/90 rule . If your budget is $100 then spend $10 on tools and professional services to implement them, and spend $90 on hiring people to analyze data you collect on your website.
The web is quite complex, you are going [...]
Effective Web Performance: Positively Managing Performance Issues
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17 Aug 2009The moment a Web site goes live, the publishers lose control of the performance.
When I say lose control of the performance, I mean that despite everything that has been done to ensure scalability and capacity, the Web is inherently an infrastructure that is out of anyone’s direct ability to manage.
This is something that needs to [...]
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- Tags: application/infrastructure/network, Business/Finance, Effective Web Performance, Internet, Internet marketing, internet performance, Management, marketing, Marketing plan, Mass media, Network management, Technology/Internet, Telecommunications, Web Performance, Web performance issue management plan, Web performance measurement
Effective Web Performance: Choosing a CDN
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13 Aug 2009Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a key component to any Web performance strategy. If you examine the content from any large online business or media provider, it won’t take long to find the objects that these organizations have entrusted to CDNs to ensure faster delivery and a better user experience.
When working with CDNs, it is [...]
Effective Web Performance: An Introduction and A Manifesto
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19 Aug 2009Every so often, you wake up and realize that the world has changed around you. Or, to say it better, your view of the world has changed so profoundly, but also so subtly and slowly that it is imperceptible unless you take the time to look back at where you came from.
Six years ago, if [...]